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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 #3: Æzurhvin slår til

Småbørnene er kommet. Hverken Arnold eller Catharina er dog synderligt begejstrede, fordi børnene tager al forældrenes opmærksomhed. Heller ikke Knusum er tilfreds med sin position, men han bliver præsenteret for det bedste våben i Kvæhl: Kaostrolden Runghammer. Desværre er Runghammer ikke typen, du kan tale med. Faktisk er han så uregerlig, at han er en konstant trussel mod alt omkring sig. Heksen Sejd viser sig endnu engang som en kvinde med talenter, og hun skaber noget der kan tæmme Runghammer. Desværre er det af en upraktisk størrelse, så det er ikke nogen let opgave at holde kaostrolden under kontrol. Med Runghammer og hans våben æzurhvin vil det ellers være muligt at skaffe dragehalespidsen. Det synes ligefrem at være den eneste måde at nedlægge den frygtelige drage på.

Mens Æzurhvin slår til ved forskellige lejligheder, kommer Catharina og Arnold i en slem knibe. Selv om de ikke bryder sig om deres nye søskende, føler de sig alligevel ansvarlige for dem; ihvertfald når de bliver kidnappet at de forfærdelige (grimme) vampyrtrolde. Det er man klar over i Sylegård, så forberedelserne er gjort, da "kranierne" ankommer. Forholdet til Cinnober bliver til stadighed værre. Begge sider begynder at ruste sig til krig, mens de hver især kæmper med deres interne problemer: Knusum med sin udødelighedsdrik og Cinnobers konge med varulvene.

Fra at være en "banal" historie om en vampyrtrolds higen efter udødelighed, begynder historien at udvikle sig til noget større og langt mere faretruende for Kvæhls fremtid.

Hele Kvæhl er ved at blive draget ind i en verdensomspændende kamp om magt, og Catharina og Arnold er ufrivillige tilskuere til dette. De må bare se til, at deres yngre søskende bliver draget med ind i det hele, som om det ikke var svært nok at holde sig fra troldene.

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Udgivelsesdato21 jul. 2008
Udgivet afTellerup A/S
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ISBN lydbog9788790100827