Kåre Bluitgen

Kåre Bluitgen (born May 10, 1959 in Birkerød -Bistrup, Denmark ) is a Danish writer and journalist who is known for his biography of the Islamic religious founder Mohammed . In the 1970s, Bluitgen was politically active for the Danish left, namely for the Venstresocialisterne ("Left Socialists").

Life

Trained as a teacher and journalist, Bluitgen also worked as a writer since 1994. Among his works are children's books, youth, history and fantasy novels; however, other of his books deal with subjects such as politics, religion and philosophy and have been translated into several languages. He has received a number of prestigious Danish literary awards. Bluitgen also worked as a translator, lecturer, editor and trainer at Danish adult education centers.

Mohammed children's book

Korans og propeten Muhammeds liv (book cover; Mohammed riding on Buraq )
Link to the picture (please note copyrights )

When he was writing the children's book Koranen og profeten Muhammeds liv , he had difficulty finding an illustrator who would draw Mohammed, as reprisals from Islamist extremists were feared. The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten responded to this situation by asking forty illustrators whether they would be willing to make caricatures of the Prophet. The resulting caricatures sparked the so-called caricature dispute . In the course of this, for example, Ali Muhi Al-Din Al-Qardaghi, a lecturer at the University of Qatar, claimed on Al-Jazeera that the author of the children's book about Mohammed was a Jew and that the book would say that the prophet Mohammed a Nazi who carried out the first holocaust.

Works (selection)

En støvle faldt from heaven . Agertoft, Karlslunde 2000, ISBN 87-7878-029-2 . English: A boot fell from the sky . From the Danish by Heinz Günther Schmidt. Hammer, Wuppertal 2001, ISBN 3-87294-884-9 .
Korans og profeten Muhammeds liv (The Koran and the life of the Prophet Mohammed). Høst & Søn, Copenhagen 2006, ISBN 87-638-0049-7 .
Korans commented (The Koran commented). Tøkk, Copenhagen 2009, ISBN 978-87-991704-4-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Bluitgen, Kåre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 10, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Birkerød -Bistrup, Denmark