Kirsten Holst
Kirsten Holst (born March 18, 1936 in Lemvig , Denmark , † September 23, 2008 in Vejle ) was a Danish writer who was mainly known for her detective novels.
Life
Kirsten Holst was born as the daughter of the police officer Palle Høybye (1907–87) and the music teacher Anne-Margrethe Thomsen (* 1905).
On September 13, 1958 she married the writer Knud Holst Andersen (born April 15, 1936 Skæve / DK, † August 18, 1995, Ålborg / Jutland / DK); the two had 3 children: the writer Hanne-Vibeke Holst (* 1959), Charlotte (* 1960) and Henriette (* 1965)
She got involved in refugee issues, mainly Africa.
Works
Kirsten Holst wrote about 60 books and short stories, 14 of her books have been published in Germany so far, all of them by Grafit Verlag .
Her best-known works in Germany are “Ways of Death”, “Set in the Sand” and “You shouldn't kill”, in which Commissioner Høyer solves the cases in an unspectacular way in a small Jutland town.
In 2007 the Danish Criminal Academy (Det danske Kriminalakademi) awarded her the Harald Mogensen Prize for the novel Sin brors vogter . In the obituary of the newspaper Politiken she was called “our crime queen”, “whose kingdom was perhaps smaller than the English or Swedish, but whose regime was milder”.
- 1976 De unge, de rige og de smukke
- 1976 Safety and smuglerne
- 1977 Døden rejser med
- 1977 Safety and minktyvene
- 1977 Ungerne and juvelrøverne
- 1978 Baggårdsrødderne
- 1978 Syv til age
- 1978 Unwelcome and summer hats
- 1979 Døden er en drøm
- 1979 Safety and mafiaen
- 1979 Not happy til søs
- 1981 De long skygger
- 1981 Også om mange år
- 1982 Det tomme hus
- 1982 factory hemmeligheden
- 1983 Når det rain på præsten
- 1983 Puslespil
- 1984 Safety and edb-mystery
- 1984 Se, døden på dig venter
- 1985 ladies i gråt
- 1986 Ishulen
- 1987 Min ven Thomas
- 1988 Døden's dark veje
- 1989 It shall not be available, Solomon
- 1989 Sov dukke Lise
- 1991 Som ringe i vandet
- 1992 Mysteriet om det levende lig
- 1994 I al sin glans og herlighed
- 1996 Rejsen til Bethlehem
- 1996 Var det kærlighed
- 1998 Ludmilla and Klør Konge
- 1998 Murder in Skagen
- 1999 Var det murder?
- 2001 Nikki og bankrøverne
- 2002 Ludmilla på sporet
- 2006 Sin brors vogter
Web links
- Literature by and about Kirsten Holst in the catalog of the German National Library
- Nekrolog in Danish (Politiken, 23 September 2008)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holst, Kirsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lemvig , Denmark |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 23, 2008 |
| Place of death | Vejle |