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Norwegian. Harry Hole (the surname pronounced as "HOO-leh"), who is also called "Harry Holy" by allies in the Australian police force, [1] is the main character in a series of crime novels written by Norwegian author Jo Nesbø. [2] The name is derived from Old Norse Hólar, the plural form of hóll, meaning "round and isolated hill."
- Harry's Background
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- Origins of The Character
- Harry Around Oslo
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Harry Hole was born in Oppsal, Oslo, in 1967. His mother was a descendent of Norway's Sami people. He is not close with his father Olav, who plays a small but key role in the book The Leopard. He has one sister, known as Sis, who has Down Syndrome and she and Harry are very close. Harry is a graduate of Police College and Law School where he was an...
Harry is described as tall, athletic and lean. He has cropped hair sticking up from his large, bumpy skull. His large nose has a network of fine veins and his blue eyes are faded from years of alcohol abuse. His mouth is his best feature and is what attracts women the most about his appearance. Harry, like most famous detectives, is a deeply flawed...
All of Harry’s cases are, by their nature, difficult. Easy cases don’t even feature on his radar so if it’s reached Harry’s desk, he knows that it won’t be a quick win, even if it can appear that way at first. The first two books take place outside Norway, with Harry investigating crimes against Norwegian nationals on foreign soil – Australia and T...
The character of Harry Hole was introduced on a flight from Oslo to Sydney. Nesbø knew he wanted to write a story of some sort, mostly as an exercise in writing, and had no fixed ideas about what form or genre the story would take. By the end of the long flight, the character of Harry Hole and the details behind The Bat – the first Harry Hole novel...
Most of the background to the Harry Hole novels revolves around real places in Oslo. Harry’s apartment at 5 Sofies gate is a real apartment building, and there’s even a buzzer labelled Harry Hole – presumably unconnected – for literary tourists to press! Read more: Fun Facts About Oslo Away from there, Harry spends most of his time in one of two pl...
Outside Norway, both Harry Hole and Jo Nesbø are happy to accept the name being pronounced how it’s written in English. In The Bat, Harry is called Harry Holeyby the Sydney Police that he encounters, and he decides to accept it rather than spend half of his time correcting them. In Norwegian, the pronunciation would best approximate to Hari (as in ...
- The Bat. (Flaggermusmannen – 1997) The series starts in the most un-Nordic location possible as Harry Hole lands in Sydney, Australia. He’s there at the request of the Australian police, who are investigating the murder of Norwegian TV presenter Inger Holter.
- Cockroaches. (Kakerlakkene – 1998) Cockroaches was eventually translated into English in November 2012. Hole has been drinking and trying to deal with what happened in Sydney, and he’s also angry about the rape of his sister, when his boss Bjarne Møller scrapes him off a barstool and puts him on the next plane to Bangkok.
- The Redbreast. (Rødstrupe – 2000) For English readers, The Redbreast is the second de facto Harry Hole novel. Appearing in 2006, it’s the first in Nesbo’s Oslo Trilogy, but came out a year after the third in the trilogy, The Devil’s Star.
- Nemesis. (Sorgenfri – 2002) Book two in the Oslo Trilogy takes place two years after The Redbreast and Hole is called to the scene of a bank robbery that’s gone south.
Fans of crime fiction from all over the world have devoured Jo Nesbø's famous novels about the detective Harry Hole, and many of them long to experience the city where so much of the books' plot takes place. Follow in his footsteps and discover some of the crime scenes, addresses, eateries and pubs in Oslo mentioned in the books.
Mar 16, 2017 · Stop 4: St. Olav's Catholic Church. This Catholic church is located in St. Olav’s Square, which appears frequently throughout the Harry Hole series. My interest in seeing this church has to do with Rakel, Harry Hole's love interest. Rakel is commonly believed to be Catholic - so we can presume that Rakel might have visited this church at one ...
Aug 22, 2024 · Many of Norway’s most prominent actors will be playing parts in a new Netflix series based on Norwegian author Jo Nesbø’s crime character Harry Hole. The streaming service revealed more of the series’ cast this week, three months after filming got underway in Oslo. News bureau NTB reports that in addition to actor Tobias Santelmann, […]
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Feb 17, 2012 · Norwegian Jo Nesbø, whose CV includes stints as a stock trader, cab driver, musician, and soccer player, has seen six novels featuring his driven and single minded Oslo homicide detective, Harry Hole, published in English translation. Harry likes jazz, ’80s rock, booze, and solving crimes. And, naturally, Hole resents and resists authority ...
