Dan Turèll

Dan Turèll was born in 1946 in Frederiksberg, the son of an electrician, and from the age of nine grew up in Vangede, the eldest of five children. An avant-garde poet at the start, nourished by the Beat Generation and American culture, a Buddhist, he became a popular figure under the nickname “Onkel Danny”, read his texts on stage with musicians, wore black nail varnish and published a hundred or so books, including twelve crime novels from 1981. He died of cancer in Copenhagen in 1993.

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• NarrativeVangede billederDan Turèll · 1975not translated into EnglishLiterature