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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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Krøniker fra Kvæhl #1: Knusum Kranikum

I en fugtdrivende tronsal i den middelalderlig skyggeborg Sylegård i et blodsugende rædselsrige, sidder den sindsyge vampyrdæmon Knusum Kranikum besat af tanken om at blive uddødelig. Han omgiver sig med en hær af frygtelige (dumme) vampyrtrolde og har allieret sig med heksen Sejd, for at finde opskriften på en udødelighedsdrik. Hovedingridiensen i drikken er kranierne fra to særligt udvalgte børn, der besidder en særlig kraft, der gør dem i stand til at rejse mellem deres egen verden og rædselsriget Kvæhl.

Arnold og Catharina aner ikke, at de er de "heldige" udvalgte der skal indgå i vampyrdæmonens udødelighedsdrik; de har det begge svært nok i forvejen. Arnolds forældre vil myrde ham til fordel for den kommende lillesøster, og Catharinas forældre har heller ikke rent mel i posen når deres andet barn snart skal til verden. Heksen sender sine øjne ud for at finde børnene og snart er en hæsblæsende jagt i en fremmed verden i fuld gang, hvor Arnold og Catharina omgivet af mystiske væsener og vampyrtrolde må ses sig godt for, hvis de ikke vil ende som hovedingredienserne i Knusum Kranikums suppe.

Med den første bog i fantasy-genren lagde Dennis Jürgensen hårdt ud. Han har brugt det samme tema som mange rollepilsforfattere, og man bliver præsenteret for et antal nye væsner i starten, som man aldrig har hørt om før. Det kan virke en smule svært at hitte rundt i de forskellige arter for den uøvede læser, men det går i så fald hurtigt over, da de alle har ofte brugte særpræg, der gør at de adskiller sig fra hinanden. Der er dog aldrig tale om typiske figurer fra rollespilsverdenen, så alle læsere har lige store forudsætninger for at kunne nyde bogen.
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Udgave1. udgave
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Udgivelsesdato11 jul. 2008
Udgivet afTellerup A/S
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ISBN lydbog9788790100865