Jussi Adler-Olsen is seventy: Writing for a profit

His Christmas wish list includes in 1957, fifty-one positions, he has crossed out. On the first list of places gun", "Revolver "can", "tool box", then, am

Jussi Adler-Olsen is seventy: Writing for a profit

His Christmas wish list includes in 1957, fifty-one positions, he has crossed out. On the first list of places gun", "Revolver "can", "tool box", then, among other things, "a whole lot of cable", "small trumpet", "cigar lighter", "the cross of Jesus", a "real typewriter" and a "Sputnik consequences". The Danish boy who submits to this conscious self as immodest list, is seven years young and one of four children of the country well-known psychiatrist Henry Olsen.

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Jussi Adler-Olsen has always been a good storyteller, but that he would one day become a successful writer, it nothing to have points executed, writes Jonas Langvad Nilsson, in his entertaining biography "The many lives of Jussi Adler-Olsen" (2018). The desire of the father to follow, it is first of all a medical degree, a degree he does, however, in film science. At the time, the end of the Seventies, he was already a successful Comic-antiquarian and dreams of a career as an international Thriller author. First, however, he is also involved in the peace movement, works for a publishing house, writes books, composes film music and is starting to redevelop slums, which he sold for a profit.

As a Thriller author, he debuted in 1997 with "The alphabet house" (dt. 2012). The success of this and two successor volumes remained manageable. Because Adler-Olsen think as a business man in marketing opportunities – in the American write-manufacturers of the James Patterson related, and he has a clear vision of how much he wants to earn as the author. He gives himself one last Chance, writes the Denmark game Thriller "mercy" (dt. 2009), which is about a kidnapped woman to be tortured in a pressure chamber slowly to death – and creates the breakthrough.

Knowledgeable in dealing with the depths of human nature

German readers, with their insatiable desire for Scandinavian thrillers a significant part in this, because you fall in love with Carl Mørck, the investigators of the newly established Department Q to solve in the basement of the Bureau's cold, complicated cases. Private runs for the stricken in his forties is not around, and professionally, he has to do it with a guy that is actually set up as a Cleaning lady and girls for all: The Syrians Hafez el-Assad turns out to be, however, as at least an equal professional, and he seems to have experience in intelligence work.

The model for Mørck, a Patient of the psychiatric hospital in Brønderslev, headed by Henry Olsen is. "A nice little killer", he called Mørck, went to the family in the house and the garden at Hand. From childhood with a mentally ill familiar, in order Adler-Olsen, with the depths of human nature with knowledge. Stylistically, he remains under a complex and overlong, a Genre tried and tested method to keep an audience of millions.

Date Of Update: 02 August 2020, 05:19