Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2016)
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Mehlum, Jan
Jan Mehlum is a Norwegian author and sociologist born in Tønsberg, Vestfold county. He has worked in management and teacher training, he has owned a cinema and he has worked as a press officer for a chain of cinemas, he has taught at the BI Nydalen school of economics, he has been an assistant lecturer at Vestfold University College (HiVe) and he has been involved in local politics for the ...
Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2008)
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Nesbø, Jo
The Norwegian, Jo Nesbø, is one of Norway’s most appreciated and successful crime writers. He was born in Oslo as Jon Nesbø, but when he was 16 he formally changed his first name to Jo, which was what his parents had originally thought of calling him. Already when he was very small, the family moved to Molde where he grew up and attended school. His mother was a librarian and read a lot, his fat...
