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Dennis Jürgensen (born 3 February 1961) is one of the most popular Danish writers 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 ongoing 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.

Dennis Jürgensen is quite shy of the media and doesn't often appear on TV, radio etc. However, on 22 August 2014 he was guest on the radio programme Syvkabalen on national radio Radio24Syv, where he openly elaborated on his work as an author and motivations.

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Den sortkåbede forfølger hvirvlede skyer af visne blade op på kirkegården. Han havde ingen øjne, kun to flammer af blafrende ild i de tomme huler. Resten af ansigtet under den bredskyggede hat var mørkt som forkullet træ. Skikkelsen nærmede sig hurtigt stedet hvor Lydia, Frode og Alex stod. De vidste alle tre hvem det var: Kæledyrsmorderen! Denne historie handler om venskab mellem tre venner, som kommer ud for noget af det værste, man kan tænke sig her i livet; nemlig det at miste én man holder særlig meget af. Det er også en fortælling om børns kærlighed til deres kæledyr og hvor langt de vil gå for at beholde dem. Overskride helt utrolige grænser, hvor de fleste voksne ville være stået af for længst. Men det er fordi børn og voksne ofte lever i to forskellige verdener til trods for at de eksisterer i det samme univers. Der optræder ting i barnesindet og barneverdenen, som ikke kan trækkes med over i voksenverdenen og det skaber ofte problemer. Børn kan "se" ting, voksne ikke kan. På en måde har de lidt af en magisk evne. Og derfor sker det af og til, at noget dukker op: Døden i forklædning af en mystisk forfølger, der skånselsløst dræber det kæreste men ejer, men også ting som kan bringe det tilbage igen. Denne bog handler om to tabuer: Døden og Djævelen! I børnenes magiske univers to størrelser som er lige ægte. Døden den uundgåelige, Djævelen den lokkende. Men selv om ethvert barn ved, at Djævelen er kendt som en snyder og løgner, så kan hans stemme være sød som honning og hans løfter så flotte som nyt legetøj. Og når man er 12 år og står med en sorg så stor, at den næsten ikke er til at bære, så kan det være svært at gennemskue disse fine ord om mirakler, der kan udføres så let som at knipse med fingeren. Men tag ikke fejl. Djævelen giver aldrig noget bort. Han vil bytte, og så kan prisen for et mirakel meget hurtigt blive for høj.
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Udgivelsesdato19 dec. 2013
Udgivet afTellerup A/S
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ISBN epub9788758814063
ISBN lydbog9788790100100