Carsten Jensen
Carsten Jensen (born July 24, 1952 in Marstal on Ærø ) is a Danish writer and professor of cultural analysis at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). He wrote novels , travel stories and essays . His most successful novel to date is Vi, de druknede , published in 2006 in German under the title Wir Drowned . In Denmark, the novel was a tremendous success with 120,000 copies sold. It has received numerous prizes and has so far been translated into 10 languages. Representing the history of modern Denmark, the story of its native Marstal is told.
Life
After completing his master's degree in literary studies in 1981 from Københavns Universitet with a treatise on Hans Kirk under the title Folkelighed og utopi , Carsten Jensen became famous in the 1980s through numerous socially critical essays and reports for various Danish newspapers such as Politiken , Dagbladet Information , Ekstra Bladet and Jyllands -Post known. From 1985 to 1990 he was editor of Fretag magazine . Since 2001 he has been teaching cultural analysis at the SDU.
Jensen received several awards, including the Georg Brandes Prize in 1993 for his collection of essays Forsømmelsernes bog and in 1997 De Gyldne Laurbær from the Danish book trade for his travelogues. In 2007 he was awarded the DR Novel Prize and the Danske Banks Litteraturpris for Vi, de druknede , in 2009 the Olof Palme Prize and in April 2012 the Søren Gyldendal Prize .
Jensen is married and has one daughter.
bibliography
- Salg, class og død, 1975
- Sjælen sidder i øjet, 1985
- På en mørkeræd klode, 1986
- Souvenirs from the 80's, 1988
- Cannibal nadver, 1988
- Jorden i munden, 1991
- Af en astmatisk kritikers bekendelser, 1992, collection of essays on the civil war in ex-Yugoslavia
- Forsømmelsernes bog, 1993, collection of essays on the civil war in ex-Yugoslavia
- Jeg har set verden begynde, 1996
- Jeg har hørt et stjerneskud, 1997
- År to & tre, 1999
- Oprøret mod tyngdeloven, 2001
- Jorden Rundt (2003)
- Livet i Camp Eden (2004)
- Det glemte folk - en rejse i Burmas grænseland (2004)
- Vi, de druknede (2006), Roman (German: Wir Ertrunkenen, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8135-0301-2 )
- Sidste rejse (2007), Roman (German: Rasmussen's last trip, Knaon us-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8135-0331-9 )
- Vi sejlede bare. Virkeligheden bag “Vi, de druknede” (2009).
- The forest. 2015.
- German by Ulrich Sonnenberg : The first stone , Roman. Knaus, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8135-0741-6 .
- Krigen the aldrig ender. Reporter from Afghanistan, together with Anders Hammer, 2016
Prizes and awards
- 1993: Georg Brandes Prize for Forsømmelsernes bog
- 1997: De Gyldne Laurbær for Jeg har set verden begynde
- 1999: Holbergmedaljen
- 2007: DR Novel Prize for Vi, de druknede
- 2007: Danske Banks Literature Prize
- 2009: Olof Palme Prize
- 2012: Søren Gyldendal Prize
- 2018: European Prize of the University of Flensburg
Web links
- Short biography and reviews of works by Carsten Jensen at perlentaucher.de
- Literature by and about Carsten Jensen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Carsten Jensen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual references, footnotes
- ↑ http://www.histo-couch.de/carsten-jensen.html
- ^ Marie Ravn Nielsen: Carsten Jensen får pris for at lave rav i den . In DR Kultur on April 12, 2012, accessed on April 24, 2012 (Danish)
- ↑ Details of his works (Danish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jensen, Carsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish writer and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marstal , Ærø |