Dan Turèll (March 19, 1946 – October 15, 1993), affectionately nicknamed "Onkel Danny" (''Uncle Danny''), was a popular Danish
writer with notable influence on
Danish literature. Influenced by the
Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized by Silent Generatio ...
his work crossed a number of genres including
autobiography
An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life.
It is a form of biography.
Definition
The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English peri ...
, Beat literature and
crime fiction.
Overview
Dan Turèll grew up in
Vangede
Vangede is a suburb 8 km north of central Copenhagen, Denmark. This area is primarily made up of one and two family houses and two and three story apartment buildings.
History
The first known references to the village is from 1346 when it i ...
, which at that time was a town outside
Copenhagen surrounded by fields; today it is a part of Greater Copenhagen. He died from
esophageal cancer
Esophageal cancer is cancer arising from the esophagus—the food pipe that runs between the throat and the stomach. Symptoms often include difficulty in swallowing and weight loss. Other symptoms may include pain when swallowing, a hoarse voice ...
and is buried at
Assistens Cemetery
Assistens Cemetery ( da, Assistens Kirkegård) is the name of a number of cemeteries in Denmark. The common nominator is, as the first part of the name implies (Latin: ''assistens'' meaning assisting), an assisting cemetery for a town's churches. ...
. On Sunday March 19, 2006, on what would have been his 60th birthday, part of the town square of ''Halmtorvet'' in Copenhagen was named ''Onkel Dannys Plads'' (English: ''Uncle Danny's Square'') in Dan Turèlls honour and remembrance.
Turèll was unruly, modern, and experimental when it came to both content and form. He might probably himself have claimed to let the form at all times be a consequence of an
interaction between
theme
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and
subject
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Philosophy
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, which inevitably would lead to a flood of crossing
genres; delightfully difficult to fit into a box.
There is often a touch of
autobiography
An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life.
It is a form of biography.
Definition
The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English peri ...
, or perhaps rather self-orchestration, to his works. He was very conscious of his own image. Many will remember him for his black nail polish. Thus his major breakthrough was the autobiographical
novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ...
, ''Vangede Billeder'' (English: ''Images of Vangede'') from 1975. He shares subjects with the American
Beat poets (mainly
Allen Ginsberg,
Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Of French-Canadian a ...
&
William S. Burroughs):
jazz,
metropolis,
drugs
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, and
zen. He has an eye for the
aesthetic
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dimensions of
decline and degeneration, which he cultivates not least in his
series of
crime novel
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s. Other recurring topics include
Copenhagen,
Malta, the teachings of
Donald Duck
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, icons of
American culture and the
Americanisation, which the United States, for better or worse, had on Denmark.
Turèll loved his city of
Copenhagen, its life, its noise and perhaps especially the little stories, that lurked everywhere. This love for the city is portrayed in many of his stories. It must be said, however, that his portrayal of
Vesterbro is considerably more romantic than the Vesterbro of
real life.
Turèll published quite a bit of his material himself, especially early in his career. He wrote in both
Danish
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People
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* Culture of Denmark
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and
English and has been translated into
Dutch,
Estonian
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See also ...
,
French
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,
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,
Norwegian,
Swedish
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and
Serbian
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*
*
* Old Serbian (disambiguat ...
.
Bibliography
Dan Turèll was a highly prolific writer, and this bibliography is in no way complete. He has contributed to numerous anthologies in his time and collections of his works are still being published to this day. He has also written a vast number of articles and essays for newspapers and various magazines on countless subjects. His wrapsheet is breathtaking. Danish literary critic and writer,
Lars Bukdahl
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Origin
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A homonymous Etruscan name was born ...
, put it this way: ''He only lived to the age of 47, and it is as though he knew he had to hurry.''
Cut-up literature
* ''Changes of Light'', 1970
* ''Occult Confessions'', 1970
* ''Speed of Light'', 1970.
* ''Opsvulmede byer i sigtekornet flagrende skud i bevidstheden'' (English: ''Inflated Cities in the Sight Fluttering Shots in the Consciousness''), 1972.
* ''Sidste forestilling bevidstløse trancebilleder af eksploderende spejltricks igennem flyvende tidsmaskine af smeltende elektriske glasfotos'' (English: ''Last Performance of Unconscious Trance Images of Exploding Mirror Tricks through Flying Time Machine of Melting Electrical Glass Photos''), 1972
* ''Feuilleton 1: Faraway Signs'' (English: ''Serial 1: Faraway Signs''), 1972
* ''Feuilleton 2: Laser Time Switch'' (English: ''Serial 2: Laser Time Switch''), 1972
* ''Feuilleton 3: Filmen synker igennem Deres øjne'' (English: ''Serial 3: The Film Sinks Through Your Eyes''), 1972
* ''Feuilleton 4: The Edison Kinetogram'' (English: ''Serial 4: The Edison Kinetogram''), 1972
* ''Feuilleton 5: It's Just Another Whistle Stop'' (English: ''Serial 5: It's Just Another Whistle Stop''), 1973
* ''Feuilleton 6: Not Fade Away ...'' (English: ''Serial 6: Not Fade Away ...''), 1973
* ''Feuilleton 7: Deres kodeskrift under Dobbelt Sol'' (English: ''Serial 7: Your Cipher under Double Sun''), 1973
* ''Feuilleton 8: Strangers in the Night'' (English: ''Serial 8: Strangers in the Night''), 1978
Novels
* ''Dét døgn, da -'' (English: ''That Day, When -''), 1992
The Murder Series
The so-called ''Mord-serie'' (English: ''Murder Series'') consists of ten novels and two volumes of short stories in the "American" school of crime fiction, known from writers like
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive durin ...
. All twelve volumes follow the same protagonist, a nameless detective / reporter, a freelance writer for a fictitious Copenhagen newspaper, plainly called ''Bladet'' (English: ''The Paper''). In each novel the protagonist is hurled into a new murder mystery, often along recurring characters, centrally among them ''Politiinspektør Ehlers'' (English: ''Inspector Ehlers''). The stories are self contained, but
settings, relations, and
characters evolve as the series progress.
The series primarily takes place in an alternate version of the borough of Vesterbro in Copenhagen, which serves as a backdrop for considerably more criminal endeavours than real life will probably ever match. Also certain aspects of the city's geography has been altered. Certain streets lie differently, for instance.
* ''Mord i mørket'' (English: ''Murder in the Dark''), 1981
* ''Mord i Rodby'' (English: ''Murder in Rodby''), 1981
* ''Mord ved Runddelen'' (English: ''Murder by the Circle''), 1983
* ''Mord på Malta'' (English: ''Murder on Malta''), 1983
* ''Mord i marts'' (English: ''Murder in March''), 1984
* ''Mord i september'' (English: ''Murder in September''), 1984
* ''Mord i myldretiden'' (English: ''Murder during Rush Hour''), 1985
* ''Mord på møntvaskeriet og andre kriminalhistorier'' (English: ''Murder in the Launderette and Other Crime Stories''), short stories, 1986
* ''Mord i rendestenen'' (English: ''Murder in the Gutter''), 1987
* ''Mord i Paradis'' (English: ''Murder in Paradise''), 1988
* ''Mord på medierne'' (English: ''Murder on the Media''), 1988
* ''Mord på markedet'' (English: ''Murder on the Market''), 1989
* ''Mord i San Francisco'' (English: ''Murder in San Francisco''), 1989
Poetry
* ''Vibrationer'' (English: ''Vibrations''), 1966
* ''40 ark'' (English: ''40 Sheets''), 1969
* ''40 linier'' (English: ''40 Lines''), 1969
* ''Manuskripter I: Øjne/Further instructions'' (English: ''Manuscripts I: Eyes/Further Instructions''), 1970
* ''Manuskripter II: Af beskrivelsen af det/Hvidt lys'' (English: ''Manuscripts II: From the Description of It/White Light''), 1970
* ''Manuskripter om hvad som helst'' (English: ''Manuscripts about anything''), 1971.
* ''Bevægelser, formålsløst cirklende'' (English: ''Movements, pointlessly circling''), 1971
* ''Dobbeltskrift'' (English: ''Double Writing''), 1973 - with
Peter Laugesen
Peter Laugesen (born 5 March 1942 in Copenhagen) is a Danish poet and playwright and was member of the Situationist International.
Peter Laugesen lives in Aarhus and he graduated from Aarhus Cathedral School in 1961 and trained as a typograph ...
* ''Onkel Danny's dadaistiske discjockey djellaba jazzjungle joysticks'' (English: ''Uncle Danny's Dadaistic Disc-Jockey Djellaba Jazz-Jungle Joysticks''), 1973
* ''Sekvens af Manjana - den endeløse sang flimrende igennem hudens pupiller'' (English: ''Sequence of Manjana, the Endless Song Flickering through the Pupils of the Skin''), 1973
* ''Lissom'' (English: ''Like''), 1973
* ''Digte m. m.'' (English: ''Poems and more''), 1973 - with
Peter Laugesen
Peter Laugesen (born 5 March 1942 in Copenhagen) is a Danish poet and playwright and was member of the Situationist International.
Peter Laugesen lives in Aarhus and he graduated from Aarhus Cathedral School in 1961 and trained as a typograph ...
,
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* Jensen (disambiguation)
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, &
Henning Mortensen
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* ''Onkel Danny's drivende dansende dirrende dinglende daskende dryppende danske dåse-digte'' (English: ''Uncle Danny's Driving Dancing Dithering Dangling Dawdling Dripping Danish Dried Poems''), 1974
* ''Onkel Danny's deliristiske jukebox jitterbug'' (English: ''Uncle Danny's Delirious Jukebox Jitterbug''), 1974
* ''Karma Cowboy'' (English: ''Karma Cowboy''), 1974; shortened version released in 1983
* ''Drive-in digte: non-stop neon-nat lys-avis'' (English: ''Drive-In Poems: Non-Stop Neon-Night Electric Newspaper''), 1976
* ''Nytår i Rom'' (English: ''New Year in Rome''), 1976
* ''Live-show feed-back: 5 sæt af Bøgernes Bog'' (English: ''Live-Show Feed-Back: 5 Sets of the Book of Books''), 1976
* ''3-D digte'' (English: ''3-D Poems''), 1977
* ''Storby-Blues'' (English: ''Big City Blues''), 1977
* ''Vesterbrobilleder'' (English: ''Images of Vesterbro''), 1977 - with photos by
Kurt Lesser
* ''Onkel Danny's små sorte sitrende swingende saxsoli sæbeboble-sange'' (English: ''Uncle Danny's Small Sable Shuddering Swinging Sax Solos Soapbubble Songs''), 1978
* ''Onkel Danny's rullende rallende regnvejrs ragtime rhapsodi'' (English: ''Uncle Danny's Rolling Rollicking Rainstorm Ragtime Rhapsody''), 1979
* ''Døgn-digte: udvalgte digte fra 70'erne'' (English: ''24 Hour Poems: Selected Poems from the 70s''), 1979
* ''Ulysses' spejl'' (English: ''Ulysses' Mirror''), 1981 - with
Henrik Nordbrandt
Henrik Nordbrandt (21 March 1945 – 31 January 2023) was a Danish poet, novelist, and essayist. He made his literary debut in 1966 with the poetry collection ''Digte''. He was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2000 for the poetry c ...
, illustrated by
Barry Lereng Wilmont
* ''Alhambra blues'' (English: ''Alhambra Blues''), 1983
* ''Kom forbi: sange & recitationer'' (English: ''Drop By: Songs & Recitals''), 1984
* ''Jazz-digte: et udvalg 1966-1986'' (English: ''Jazz Poems: A Selection 1966-1986''), 1986 - illustrated by
Peter Hentze
* ''Forklædt til genkendelighed: sange, digte & recitationer'' (English: ''Recognizably Disguised: Songs, Poems & Recitals''), 1988
* ''Himalaya Hilton'' (English: ''Himalaya Hilton''), 1991
* ''Gud & Gokke'' (English: ''The Lord & Hardy''), 1992
* ''Tja-a Cha-Cha'' (English: ''Tja-a Cha-Cha''), 1993
* ''Udvalgte digte 1: 1969-1974'' (English: ''Selected Poems 1: 1969-1974''), 2003
* ''Udvalgte digte 2: 1973-1993'' (English: ''Selected Poems 2: 1973-1993''), 2004
Prose
* ''Områder af skiftende tæthed og tomhed'' (English: ''Areas of Alternating Density and Void''), 1970
* ''Film'' (English: ''Film''), 1973 - with
Henrik Have
Henrik Have (14 March 1946 – 12 September 2014) was a Danish
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* ''Vangede billeder'' (English: ''Images of Vangede''), memoirs, 1975
* ''
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...
/
William S. Burroughs/
Lou Reed
Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942October 27, 2013) was an American musician, songwriter, and poet. He was the guitarist, singer, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades. ...
: 3 medie-montager'' (English: ''Ezra Pound/William S. Burroughs/Lou Reed: 3 Media Montages''), 1975
* ''Rockens rødder. Medie-montager II'' (English: ''The Roots of Rock. Media Montages II''), 1975
* ''SuperShowStjerneStøv. Medie-Montager III'' (English: ''SuperShowStarDust. Media Montages III''), 1976
* ''Onkel Danny fortæller'' (English: ''Uncle Danny Relates''), memoirs, 1976
* ''Af Livets Laboratorium. Medie-Montager IV'' (English: ''From the Lab of Life. Media Montages IV''), 1977
* ''MenneskeMyteMaskinen. Medie-Montager V'' (English: ''ManMythMachine. Media Montages V''), 1977
* ''Livets karrusel'' (English: ''The Merry-Go-Round of Life''), 1977
* ''Onkel Danny fortæller videre'' (English: ''Uncle Danny Relates Further''), memoirs, 1978
* ''Onkel Sams sønner. Medie-Montager VI'' (English: ''Uncle Sam's Sons. Media Montages VI''), 1978
* ''Alverdens vampyrer: første forestilling på Grusomhedens Teater eller En idés rejse fra 5000 f. Kristus til i dag'' (English: ''All the World's Vampires: First Performance of the Theatre of Cruelty or The Journey of an Idea from 5000 b. Christ until Today''), 1978
* ''Amerikanske ansigter: udvalgte artikler fra 70'erne'' (English: ''American Faces: Selected Articles from the 70's''), 1979
* ''Møde i Garda: en fortælling i forbigående'' (English: ''Meeting in Garda: A Story in Passing''), 1979
* ''Dan Turèll i byen: 50 historier af Københavns-krøniken fortalt fra dag til dag'' (English: ''Dan Turèll on the Town: 50 Stories from the Copenhagen Chronicle told from Day to Day''), 1979 - illustrated by
Peder Nyman
* ''Onkel Danny fortæller i timevis'' (English: ''Uncle Danny Relates for Hours on End''), 1979
* ''Dan Turèll - et udvalg omkring en generation'' (English: ''Dan Turèll - A Selection About a Generation''), 1981
* ''Onkel Danny fortæller på talløse opfordringer'' (English: ''Uncle Danny Relates by Countless Requests''), memoirs, 1982
* ''Dan Turèll i byen igen: 50 historier af Københavns-krøniken fortalt fra dag til dag'' (English: ''Dan Turèll on the Town Again: 50 Stories from the Copenhagen Chronicle told from Day to Day''), 1982 - illustrated by
Peder Nyman
* ''Omkring på Brevduebanen'' (English: ''Around at the Carrier Pigeon Track''), 1982
* ''Dansk dragefestival 1964-1984'' (English: ''Danish Kite Festival 1964-1984''), 1984 - with
Bjarne Lynnerup
* ''Sort film: en privat dagbog omkring kriminalgenren'' (English: ''Film Noir: A Private Journal about the Crime Genre''), 1984
* ''Shu-Bi-Dua - melodierne, teksterne, historien'' (English: ''Shu-Bi-Dua'' - the Melodies, the Lyrics, the Story''), 1984 - essay by Turèll, note sheets and lyrics by
Shu-Bi-Dua
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* ''Dan Turèll i byen så det basker: 50 historier af Københavns-krøniken fortalt fra dag til dag'' (English: ''Dan Turèll on the Town with a Vengeance: 50 Stories from the Copenhagen Chronicle told from Day to Day''), 1985 - illustrated by
Peder Nyman
* ''Don Dobbeltliv og andre historier fra Stjernecaféen'' (English: '' Don Double-Life and Other Stories from Star Café''), short stories, 1985
* ''Nekrolog - blues for --'' (English: ''Necrologue - Blues for --'', 1987 - illustrated by
Peter Hentze
* ''Blues for Buddha'' (English: ''Blues for Buddha''), 1988 - illustrated by
Peter Hentze
* ''Dan Turèll i byen - i dén grad!: 50 historier af Københavns-krøniken fortalt fra dag til dag'' (English: ''Dan Turèll on the Town - and how!: 50 Stories from the Copenhagen Chronicle told from Day to Day''), 1988 - illustrated by
Peder Nyman
* ''As time goes by - :klip fra den fortsatte scrap-bog'' (English: ''As Time Goes By -: Cuts from the Continued Scrapbook''), 1989
* ''Dan Turèll i byen - og i baggårdene: 50 historier af Københavns-krøniken fortalt fra dag til dag'' (English: ''Dan Turèll on the Town - and in the Backyards: 50 Stories from the Copenhagen Chronicle told from Day to Day''), 1991
* ''Undervejs med Copenhagen All Stars: et jazzband på turné i Danmark'' (English: ''On the Road with Copenhagen All Stars: A Jazzband on Tour in Denmark''), 1991
* ''Dan Turèll i byen - for sidste gang: 37 historier af Københavns-krøniken fortalt fra dag til dag'' (English: ''Dan Turèll on the Town - One Last Time: 37 Stories from the Copenhagen Chronicle told from Day to Day''), 1994
* ''Just a gigolo: klip fra den store scrap-bog 1989-93'' (English: ''Just a Gigolo: Cuts from the Great Scrapbook 1989-93''), 1995
* ''En nat ved højttaleren med sprogets mikrofon: rariteter, 1964-79'' (English: ''A Night by the Speaker with the Mic of Language: rarities, 1964-79''), 2003
* ''Medie-montager: greatest hits'' (English: ''Media Montages: Greatest Hits''), 2003
* ''
Charlie Parker i Istedgade: tekster om jazz'' (English: ''Charlie Parker in Istedgade: Texts about jazz''), 2006
Spoken Word Recordings
* ''Dansk tale: to monologer'' (English: ''Danish Speech: Two Monologues''), MC, 1981
* ''Dan Turèll & Sølvstjernerne'' (English: ''Dan Turèll & the Silver Stars''), LP, 1991; CD, 1993 - with music by
Sølvstjernerne
* ''Pas på pengene!'' (English: ''Watch the Money''), CD, 1993 - with music by
Halfdan E
* ''Glad i åbningstiden'' (English: ''Happy During Opening Hours''), CD, 1996 - with music by
Halfdan E
* ''Dan Turèll & Sølvstjernerne vender tilbage'' (English: ''Dan Turèll & the Silver Stars Return''), CD, 2004 - with music by
Sølvstjernerne
Works in English
The following poems of Dan Turèll have been published in English since 2009 when the American writer, Thomas E. Kennedy, began to translate and write about Turèll with his widow’s permission:
Three poems from Storby-Blues with essay, “Uncle Danny Comes to America,” in New Letters, 73:2&3 (2009):126-39; four poems from Storby Blues, with essay, “Smoking Dan Turèll’s 27-year-old Cigar,”in Absinthe: New European Writing 12 (2009):34-58 {Reprinted in Perigee: Publication for the Arts, Fall 2012.] “Deep Frost Film,” Poetry Wales, 46:2:6-7 (Autumn 2010); “My TV Drama,” in Ecotone 12 (University of North Carolina, Wilmington), Fall 2011, p. 73-75; “Total Euphoria,” “It Isn’t Easy,” “I Should Have Been a Taxi Driver,” “Today’s Sermon According to Disney,” and “Charlie Parker on Isted Street,” with an “Introduction to Dan Turèll” by the translator, in Poet Lore, Vol 107, Spring-Summer 2012, No.1-2, pp 96-114; . “Autumn Blues,” “Midnight Mass,” and “Teddy Bear” in McNeese Review: 50 (2013):22-28; “Too Much, Man,” in Epoch, Cornell University (forthcoming).
* ''The Total-Copy System'', poetry, 1971.
* ''A Draft of XXX Space Cantos'', crossover poetry, 1972
* ''Here Comes Your 19th Nervous Breakdown/Stones: Last Words 1972'', poem, 1973
* ''Another Draft of Space Cantos'', crossover poetry, 1974
* ''A Third Draft of Space Cantos'', crossover poetry, 1974
* ''Feuilleton 8: Strangers in the Night'' (English: ''Serial 8: Strangers in the Night''), 1978
* ''And all that jazz: Copenhagen Jazz Festival'' (English: ''And All That Jazz: Copenhagen Jazz Festival''), photobook; text in both Danish and English - photos by
Gorm Valentin
Adaptations
* His novels, ''Mord i mørket'' (English: ''Murder in the Dark'') and ''Mord i Paradis'' (English: ''Murder in Paradise'') both from 1981 were made into film in 1986 and 1988 respectively.
* In 2006 a musical theatre production, ''Onkel Danny'', was made about his life.
Legacy
The square
Dan Turèlls Plads
Dan Turèlls Plads is a public square in the Vangede district of Gentofte Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was named for the writer Dan Turèll
Dan Turèll (March 19, 1946 – October 15, 1993), affectionately nic ...
in his native
Vangede
Vangede is a suburb 8 km north of central Copenhagen, Denmark. This area is primarily made up of one and two family houses and two and three story apartment buildings.
History
The first known references to the village is from 1346 when it i ...
was named for him on 9 March 2007.
Onkel Dannys Plads (Uncle Danny's Square) in the
Kødbyen
Kødbyen (; also known as the Meat District or Meatpacking District, after the New York Meatpacking District) is a district of Vesterbro in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is situated between the railway lines going into Copenhagen Central Station and ...
area of Copenhagen's
Vesterbro district is also named for him.
References
External links
Turèll-samlingen (The Turèll Collection)at Vangede Public Library; homepage in Danish
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Profile of Dan Turèllat The Danish Literature Centre
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1993 deaths
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