Poul Ørum

Poul Erik Nørholm Ørum (born December 23, 1919 in Nykøbing Mors ; † December 27, 1997 ) was a Danish journalist and writer who was awarded both the Critic 's Prize and the Søren Gyldendal Prize .

Life

After attending school and studying, Ørum worked as a journalist between 1944 and 1957. He made his writing debut in 1953 and, after finishing his journalistic activities in 1957, settled as a full-time writer on the North Sea island of Fanø . In most of his nearly forty books that followed, the conflict between the social or political elite and the marginalized or underprivileged sections of the population was a central theme.

He had his first major success with the novel Lyksalighedens ø (1958), for which he received the critics' prizes in 1958. He achieved widespread fame in particular through a series of detective novels about the heart and soul investigating police officer Jonas Mørck, who began with Syndebuk in 1972 and had her last volume in 1994 with Vildspor (1994). These novels were characterized by the fact that, in addition to the actual criminal investigation, there were often deep, hidden reasons that led to the identification of the perpetrator.

In Det 11. bud (1972), which was awarded the Søren Gyldendal Prize in 1973, he described the desperate vigilantism of those persecuted against their oppressors. After the death of his wife in 1980, he also worked as a writer on coping with grief, as in 1982 in Ravnen mod aften .

Publications

in German language

• One is to be sacrificed: detective novel , original title Syndebuk , 1980, ISBN 3-499-42534-3
• What is truth : Detective novel , original title Kun sandheden , 1981, ISBN 3-499-42549-1
• Knowledge is murder , original title De uforsonlige , 1981, ISBN 3-499-42563-7
• Silent witnesses , original title Tavse vidner , 1981, ISBN 3-499-42576-9
• At the critical point , original title Brist Punktet , 1983, ISBN 3-499-42641-2
• The shadow next to you , original title Skyggen ved din højre hånd , 1983, ISBN 3-499-42657-9
• Blind windows , original title Ukendt offer , 1984, ISBN 3-499-42676-5
• The eleventh commandment , original title Det ellevte bud , 1984, ISBN 3-499-42694-3
• After dark , original title Hjemkomst til drab , 1985, ISBN 3-499-42724-9
• The last flight , original title Sidste flugt , 1987, ISBN 3-499-42822-9

Web links

• Biography (Den Store Danske)
• Biography and bibliography (schwedenkrimi.de)
• Bibliography (litteratursiden.dk)