- Dennis Jürgensen
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Dennis Jürgensen (born February 3, 1961) is one of the most popular Danish writer for kids and young adults. A study among Danish kids from 11 to 18 years showed that 90 % knew who he was and his fan club has almost 1000 members. In Denmark, a country of only about five and a half million inhabitants, that is a very significant size for a fanclub.
Jürgensen is mostly a writer for the youth but as he has said himself some of his books should be considered to be for adults. He has written in almost any genre but his most preferred genres are fantasy, science fiction and horror or a combination of those three. But he has also written crime-books, books about love and realistic novels.
Humor is an on-going feature, a thing he focuses a lot on. One of his idols, Stephen King, once said his biggest wish was that someone would die of terror after reading his book. To that Jürgensen has remarked that his biggest wish is that someone will laugh so hard from reading his book that people in the bus will turn around and look at him.
He grew up in Brønshøj near Copenhagen (today he's living in Rødovre), he was doing okay in school with the exception being Danish. He drifted around after taking his exam in 1978 and tried unsuccessfully to send manuscripts to various publishers. But during the summer of 1981 Kristian Tellerup from the publishing company Tellerup answered to one of his scripts, Love at First Hiccup, a youth-novel about love and of course a lot humor. It was published the same autumn and was an enormous success and has since been reprinted 20 times. It was later put to the screen in 1999 and became a big success in Denmark. Since then he has written more than 50 novels and made three feature films, for example an adaptation of his Kærlighed ved første hik, starring Robert Hansen and Sofie Lassen-Kahlke.
Generally Dennis Jürgensen is quite shy of the media and doesn't generally appear in the TV, radio etc.
Contents
Bibliography
These are the Danish titles of the books that have been printed.
- Kærlighed ved første hik (1981)
- Er du blød mand (1982)
- Balladen om den forsvundne mumie (1982)
- Brædder til Draculas kiste (1983)
- Djævelens hule (1983)
- Bøvsedragens hemmelighed (1984)
- Jord i hovedet (1984)
- Grønne øjne (1985)
- Blodspor i Transsylvanien (1986)
- Flyskræk (1986)
- Gargoylens gåde (1986)
- Stormesteren (1987)
- Bøvl med bandagerne (1988)
- Knusumkranium (Krøniker fra kvæhl 1) (1988)
- Vampyrtroldene (Krøniker fra kvæhl 2) (1988)
- Æzurvin slår til (Krøniker fra kvæhl 3) (1988)
- Midnatstimen (1989)
- Dystopia (1989)
- Heksens ansigt (Krøniker fra kvæhl 4) (1990)
- Lusingandos fælde (Krøniker fra kvæhl 5) (1990)
- Jeg, en nørd (1990)
- Snevampyren (1991)
- Sorte Ragn rider igen (1991)
- Kadavermarch (1991)
- Tingen i cellen (1992)
- Mirakler udføres (1992)
- Benny og Brian med ketchup og sennep (1993)
- Monstret i kælderen (1993)
- Relief (1993)
- Måske (1994)
- Ikke en fjer bedre (1995)
- Sidste time (1995)
- Mørkeleg (1996)
- Benny og Brian møder den sorte julemand (1996)
- De hængte mænds hus (1997)
- Et grimm’t eventyr (1997)
- Uhyret i brønden (1998)
- Gylperen (1999)
- Hår(d) (1999)
- Maskiner sanser ikke hud (2000)
- De kom fra blodsumpen 2 (with Patrick Leis) (2001)
- Evighedens port (Drømmetjenerne 1) (2002)
- Mandators Kappe (Drømmetjenerne 2) (2004)
- Ondskabens Dimension (Drømmetjenerne 3) (2005)
- Den Gyldne By (Drømmetjenerne 4) (2006)
- Kadaverjagt (2006)
- Sagen om de japanske dræbergardiner (Spøgelseslinien 1) (2003)
- Sagen om det blodige vampyrtrick (Spøgelseslinien 2) (2004)
- Sagen om Ugledrengens afklippede klo (Spøgelseslinien 3) (2007)
- Dæmonen i hælene (2007)
- Sagen om det galoperende maleri (Spøgelseslinien 4) (2008)
- Sagen om den brændende klovn (Spøgelseslinien 5) (2008)
- Tunnelmanden (2010)
- Kælderkrigerne (2010)
Books about Dennis Jürgensen
- Drager, damer & dæmoner - en guide til Dennis Jürgensens univers, M. F. Clasen, Tellerup, 2002
See also
- Anders Westenholz, another Danish writer of fantasy and other fantastic literature.
External links
Categories:- 1961 births
- Living people
- Danish children's writers
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