Nesbo, Jo
Entry updated 15 September 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1960- ) Norwegian musician, professional footballer (long retired) and author, who does not normally spell Nesbø for publication with the diacritical. He is known primarily for his nonfantastic Harry Hole sequence of nonfantastic policiers beginning with Flaggermusmannen (1997; trans Don Bartlett as The Bat 2012); the series [not listed in Checklist below] has reached at least twelve volumes. Nesbo is initially of sf interest for the Doctor Proctor sequence for the younger Young Adult market beginning with Doktor Proktors prompepulver (2007; trans Tara Chace as Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder 2010), the doctor being a combination of amateur Mad Scientist and genuine creator of potentially world-changing Inventions, the powder introduced in the first tale, which can propel users into space, being typical.
Nesbo is initially of adult sf interest for the original concept and co-creation credit for the Television series Okkupert [simultaneously released as Occupied] (2015-2019), a Near Future political thriller set in a Norway where calamitous Climate Change has triggered a cessation of fossil fuel production, an event which inspires EU-backed Invasion by Russia in order to restore supplies. Also of sf interest are several of the stories assembled in Sjalusimannen og andre fortellinger (coll 2021; trans Robert Ferguson as The Jealousy Man and Other Stories 2021), the most weighty of these being "Rat Island", a novella set at the top of a skyscraper in a large unnamed City, where an exemplary crew of survivors of a not unfamiliar Pandemic-ridden Near Future world attempt to stay alive. [JC]
see also: Occupied.
Jo Nesbø
born Oslo, Norway: 29 March 1960
works (highly selected)
series
Doctor Proctor
- Doktor Proktors prompepulver (Oslo, Norway: H Aschehoug and Company, 2007) [Doctor Proctor: binding unknown/]
- Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder (London: Simon and Schuster UK, 2010) [trans by Tara Chace of the above: Doctor Proctor: illus/hb/Mike Lowery]
- Doktor Proktors tidsbadekaret (Oslo, Norway: H Aschehoug and Company, 2008) [Doctor Proctor: binding unknown/]
- Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: Bubble in the Bathtub (New York: Simon and Schuster/Aladdin, 2011) [trans by Tara Chace of the above: Doctor Proctor: illus/hb/Mike Lowery]
- Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: Time-Travel Bath Bomb (London: Simon and Schuster UK, 2012) [vt of the above trans by Tara Chace: Doctor Proctor: illus/pb/Mike Lowery]
- Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: Bubble in the Bathtub (New York: Simon and Schuster/Aladdin, 2011) [trans by Tara Chace of the above: Doctor Proctor: illus/hb/Mike Lowery]
- Doktor Proktors og verdens undergang: Kanskje (Oslo, Norway: H Aschehoug and Company, 2010) [Doctor Proctor: binding unknown/]
- Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: Who Cut the Cheese? (New York: Simon and Schuster/Aladdin, 2012) [trans by Tara Chace of the above: Doctor Proctor: illus/hb/Mike Lowery]
- Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: The End of the World, Maybe (London: Simon and Schuster UK, 2014) [vt: trans by Tara Chace of the above: Doctor Proctor: illus/pb/Mike Lowery]
- Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: Who Cut the Cheese? (New York: Simon and Schuster/Aladdin, 2012) [trans by Tara Chace of the above: Doctor Proctor: illus/hb/Mike Lowery]
- Doktor Proktors og det store gullrøveriet (Oslo, Norway: H Aschehoug and Company, 2012) [Doctor Proctor: binding unknown/]
- Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: The Magical Fruit (New York: Simon and Schuster/Aladdin, 2012) [trans by Tara Chace of the above: Doctor Proctor: illus/hb/Mike Lowery]
- Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: The Great Gold Robbery (London: Simon and Schuster UK, 2013) [ebook: vt: trans by Tara Chace of the above: Doctor Proctor: illus/na/Mike Lowery]
- Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: The Magical Fruit (New York: Simon and Schuster/Aladdin, 2012) [trans by Tara Chace of the above: Doctor Proctor: illus/hb/Mike Lowery]
- Doktor Proktors redde jula? (Oslo, Norway: H Aschehoug and Company, 2017) [Doctor Proctor: binding unknown/]
- Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: Silent (But Deadly) Night (New York: Simon and Schuster/Aladdin, 2017) [trans by Tara Chace of the above: Doctor Proctor: illus/hb/Mike Lowery]
collections and stories
- Sjalusimannen og andre fortellinger (Oslo, Norway: H Aschehoug and Company, 2021) [coll: hb/]
- The Jealousy Man and Other Stories (London: Harvill Secker, 2021) [coll: trans by Robert Ferguson of the above: hb/Dan Mogford/Getty Images]
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