 Christian Jungersen’s first novel, Krat, won the Danish Best First Novel of The Year Award and stayed on the Danish bestseller lists for three months. It was also shortlisted for Weekendavisen’s prestigious Literature Prize and selected Book of the Month by the book club Samlerens Bogklub.
In addition, the Danish Arts Foundation awarded the author its coveted three-year grant – the first time in twenty years the grant had been given to anyone who had written just one novel (Peter Hoeg included).
For his second novel, Jungersen joined the International Association of Genocide Scholars and conducted extensive research on the psychology of genocide perpetrators. The Exception was issued as Undtagelsen by Denmark’s largest publishing house in October 2004.
The Exception
Original title: Undtagelsen
620 pages
Gyldendal
Danmark
2004
Bestseller: over150000 copies sold!
Rights sold:
Sweden: Albert Bonniers Forlag
Norway: Aschehoug
Finland: Otava
Netherlands: De Geus
France: Denoel
Spain: Random House Mondadori
Italy: Mondadori
USA: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
US paperback: Anchor Books
Canada: Doubleday Canada
Germany: Piper Verlag
UK: Weidenfeld & Nicholson
UK paperback: Phoenix
Iceland: Edda
Poland: W.A.B.
Brasil: Intrinseca
Portugal: Caleidoscopio
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