Question: When was the book written that the movie The Snowman was made after?
Context: Father Christmas is a 1991 animated short based on two books written by Raymond Briggs: "Father Christmas" and "Father Christmas Goes on Holiday", published in 1973 and 1975 respectively.  It was first aired in Britain in 1991 on Channel 4, nine years after "The Snowman", another animated Briggs adaptation produced for the same channel.  This movie was dedicated to the late actor John McGuire.  The film was first released on DVD in 2000, bundled with "The Snowman".  It was later released separately. Bem cavalgar, fully Livro da ensinança de bem cavalgar toda sela ("Book on the instruction of riding well on every saddle"), is a book written by Edward of Portugal, left incomplete as Edward died of a plague in 1438.  It is one of the oldest remaining manuals of medieval horsemanship and jousting.  Together with "Leal Conselheiro", the other book written by King Edward, the manuscript is kept at the French National Library, Paris. The Falcon and the Snowman is a 1985 American spy drama film directed by John Schlesinger.  The screenplay by Steven Zaillian is based on the 1979 book "The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage" by Robert Lindsey, and tells the true story of two young American men, Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton) and Andrew Daulton Lee (Sean Penn), who sold US security secrets to the Soviet Union.  The film features the song "This Is Not America," written and performed by David Bowie and the Pat Metheny Group. Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit, is a 2009 Christian book written by Francis Chan, the author of bestseller book .  It is the second book written by Chan, and is co-authored with Danae Yankoski.  This book was published by David C. Cook and was released in the United States in September 2009. Noor-ul-Haq ("The light of Truth") is a two-part Arabic book written by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement in 1894.  It consists of both prose and poetry.  The first part was written in refutation of a book written by Padre Imad Ud-Din Lahiz, a Christian preacher who had apostatised from Islam.  The second part was written with regards to the solar and lunar eclipses which took place in 1894.  With the publication of the book Ghulam Ahmad issued an advertisement with a reward of rs5,000 to anyone who could produce its like in terms of literary style. The Conquest of Space is a nonfiction book written by David Lasser in 1930 and self-published in 1931.  It was the first book written in English that presented rocketry and spaceflight in a serious manner.  The book profiles a fictional journey to the moon to explain the science of rocketry as it stood in 1931.  It uses contemporary knowledge on rockets to create a reasonable description of the hardware necessary to make spaceflight possible.  The book was out of print until 2002, when it was republished by Apogee Books.  s of 2011 , the book remains in print. The Snowman (Norwegian: "Snømannen" , 2007) is a novel by Norwegian crime-writer Jo Nesbø.  It is the seventh entry in his Harry Hole series. Who Will Cry When You Die is a book written by Canadian writer Robin Sharma.  The book was first published in 1999.  This was the third book written by the author in the series "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari". The Snowman is an upcoming 2017 British crime thriller film directed by Tomas Alfredson and written by Hossein Amini and Peter Straughan, based on the novel of the same name by Jo Nesbø.  The film stars Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Val Kilmer and J. K. Simmons.  Principal photography began on 18 January 2016 in Norway.  The film will be released by Universal Pictures on 13 October 2017 and on 20 October 2017 in the United States. "Walking in the Air" is a song written by Howard Blake for the 1982 animated film of Raymond Briggs' 1978 children's book "The Snowman".  The song forms the centrepiece of "The Snowman", which has become a seasonal favorite on British and Finnish television.  The story relates the fleeting adventures of a young boy and a snowman who has come to life.  In the second part of the story, the boy and the snowman fly to the North Pole.  "Walking in the Air" is the theme for the journey.  They attend a party of snowmen, at which the boy seems to be the only human until they meet Father Christmas with his reindeer, and the boy is given a scarf with a snowman pattern.  In the film, the song was performed by St Paul's Cathedral choirboy Peter Auty, and reissued in 1985 (on Stiff Records) and 1987.
Answer: 2007