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Nesbø sells more English books than Norwegian

Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø has now sold more books in English translation than in the original Norwegian, an article in the DN newspaper has revealed.

Published: 6 November 2013 14:22 CET
Nesbø sells more English books than Norwegian
Jo Nesbø - Peter Knudsen
The author of the ten Harry Hole detective novels has sold 620,000 books translated into English so far this year, taking his total English language sales to 3.8 million. 
 
The compares to the 3.7 million books the author has sold in Norwegian, although this does not count 500,000 copies distributed through Norwegian book clubs, or Norwegian audiobook sales of 275,000.
 

Nesbø's latest book, Politi (Police) has debuted in sixth place on the New York Times Best Sellers list, spurred on by the author's three-week book tour of the US and Canada, which ends this week. 
 
According to DN, the author is on track to sell books worth 1.5 billion kroner ($250m) this year. 

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Airline Norwegian posts 15 billion kroner loss after nightmare 2020

Low cost airline Norwegian has registered a loss of 14.9 billion Norwegian kroner for 2020, a year in which the company saw a drastic reduction in passenger numbers and was on the brink of bankruptcy.

Published: 26 February 2021 13:18 CET
A file photo of a Norwegian Air Shuttle plane in Finland.
A file photo of a Norwegian Air Shuttle plane in Finland. Heikki Saukkomaa / Lehtikuva / AFP

Low cost airline Norwegian has registered a loss of 14.9 billion Norwegian kroner for 2020, a year in which the company saw a drastic reduction in passenger numbers and was on the brink of bankruptcy.

The company published its annual results on Friday, revealing the huge operating loss.

Norwegian’s 2019 result, a loss of around 1.7 billion kroner, had put the company in a difficult position even prior to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The coronavirus outbreak and its consequent travel restrictions reduced the company’s passenger numbers to 6.9 million in 2020. That is 29 million fewer than in 2019.

Not all of the loss is due to fewer passengers. Around half of the company’s devaluation is attributed to a depreciation of the value of its aircraft fleet, news wire Ritzau reports.

“2020 was an exceptionally demanding year for air travel and for Norwegian,” CEO Jacob Schram said in a statement on the annual results.

“In light of that, the result for the fourth quarter (of 2020) is not surprising. Unfortunately, the majority of our employees are furloughed and many have lost their jobs – in part because of the closure of long distance services,” he added.

The company was already in debt prior to the pandemic and is now under bankruptcy protection in Ireland and is undergoing similar process in Norway.

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