Dr Jarosław Giza, Assistant Professor at University of Applied Sciences in Nowy Sącz, Poland, has published the first study of the global bestselling Harry Hole novels. It’s titled The Traces of Gothic Fiction in Scandinavian Crime Fiction: A Study of Jo Nesbø’s Oslo Trilogy

#FirstCoffeeOfTheDay ☕️ with the original and intriguing One True Word by Snæbjörn Arngrímsson, translated from #Icelandic 🇮🇸 by Larissa Kyzer @pushkinpress.com

This is the fourth #Riverton Revolver that #JoNesbø has received.
His previous awards were in:
⭐️ 1998 - debut Flaggermusmannen / The Bat, tr. from Norwegian by Don Bartlett
⭐️ 2016 - Riverton Club’s honorary award
⭐️ 2019 - Kniv / Knife, tr. from Norwegian by Neil Smith
#NordicNoir

Jo Nesbø vant Rivertonprisen 2025 Jo Nesbø kan glise etter at han onsdag kunne plukke opp sin fjerde revolver.

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Jo Nesbø’s #Minnesota is the winner of this year’s Riverton Prize for the best crime fiction novel in #Norway 🤩 The English version, titled Wolf Hour and translated from Norwegian by Robert Ferguson, is sitting on the top of my TBR list 🇳🇴

Jo Nesbø’s Gothic Oslo Trilogy As millions of people around the world (the last number was 6,9m) watch Harry Hole on Netflix, and social media are awash with stories, photographs, interviews and opinions, I read a great review b…

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The author of monograph #JarosławGiza focuses on three novels The Redbreast, Nemesis and The Devil’s Star, the #OsloTrilogy, and explores the #Gothic #tradition that has inspired and shaped the global success of #NordicNoir and made #JoNesbø its superstar #Oslo #Norway 🇳🇴

Reblogged: Jo Nesbø’s Gothic Oslo Trilogy.
As millions of people around the world (last number 6,9m) watch #HarryHole on Netflix and social media are awash with stories, photographs, interviews & opinions, I read a great review by Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen of a new academic book on #JoNesbø’s writing.

#MondayMotivation 😎
Especially as it’s 13th. Again.

World’s largest wind farm is getting plugged in Hornsea 3 – a vast, offshore, wind farm project – has reached Norfolk, as renewables cut costs and reduce reliance on gas

Latest details on the largest wind farm in the world – to power 3.3 million homes – as it prepares to connect to the grid.

As renewables saved the UK £1bn in gas imports in March, Reform UK is still saying it wants to scrap Net Zero.

Beautifully decorated eggs 🐣

Winter mood in #Telemark ❄️ #NorwegianWeatherReport 🇳🇴

They have important stuff to do 😉😹

I asked 🐈 Zelda 🐈 if she knew it’s her 3rd birthday 😻 today.
She just said she’s too busy patrolling the garden, supervising seagulls and inspecting the neighbourhood but she will some tuna for dinner when she’s done for the day 😹

Pros and cons of being waked up by a cat ridiculously early:

Cons ❌
Being waked up
Being waked up ridiculously early

Pros ✅
Gorgeous sunrise
Cat
Seagulls’ meeting
Did I say cat 🐈‍⬛ and gorgeous sunrise 🌅?

#NorwegianWeatherReport 🇳🇴

My absolute pleasure, David 😊

#Påskekrim 🐣 📚🥛 in #Norway 🇳🇴

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Wesołych Świąt 🌺 Happy Easter 🍃 God Påske 🐣
Enjoy your day whatever you do 🤗
Look after yourself and your loved ones 🥰

Thank you for reading Caroline 😊 Happy Easter 🐣

Påskekrim: Harry, Chastity and Stella Time is always right for crime. Or krim, and by that I mean crime fiction. One morning in March at the Norwegian Gardermoen airport I was waiting for a plane to Warsaw. The plane was…

My #Påskekrim mood this #Easter 🐣 📚 🐰 🇳🇴 🇮🇸 🇩🇪

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Thanks 😹

Fantastic sky between snow and rain 🌊 ☀️
#NorwegianWeatherReport

I think I have a new boyfriend🤞
He calls me shark 🦈 (my favourite sea creature) and wants me to sing to him (ugh). I don’t understand anything else he says but we’re having fun 😉

Question and answer 😻 #TheLegendOfZelda

Thank you 🙏 I love the magic of sunrises and sunsets 🌅

Good morning 🌅

I’ve just heard first seagulls 😊
Hell, yeah!
Spring is here! 🍃 🌺 🦅

#FridayFun: A Few Hours at Leipzig Book Fair I was only able to attend the Leipzig Book Fair on one day, Sunday, the last day of the fair. But I was wowed by the scale and comfort of it, after the drudgery that is the London Book Fair. But of…

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Brilliant 🤩
But… would a map 🗺️ help? 😉

Waffle Day 🧇 today #VaffelDag