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Jean M. Auel

Forfatter af Hulebjørnens klan

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Jean Auel was born on February 18, 1936. For many years Auel considered herself a closet poet, writing in her spare time. She came up with an idea for a short story about a girl who lives with people who are unlike her. This short-story idea became the successful novel, "The Clan of the Cave Bear." vis mere Auel's considerable research for the novel included field trips to archeological digs that enable her to provide an accurate depiction of humans living in with nature. The cave dweller topic interested many readers, and Auel wrote several additional books. Together, these works comprise the Earth's Children Series. Auel's writing style draws the reader into exciting speculation about prehistoric earth and its adventures. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Serier

Værker af Jean M. Auel

Hulebjørnens klan (1980) 12,755 eksemplarer
Hestenes Dal (1982) 8,286 eksemplarer
Mammutjægerne (1985) 7,855 eksemplarer
Rejsen over stepperne (1980) 6,989 eksemplarer
Folket i klippehulerne (2002) 6,089 eksemplarer
Hulernes sang : roman (2011) 2,800 eksemplarer
Rejsen over stepperne / [Bind] 1 (1990) 137 eksemplarer
Rejsen over stepperne / [Bind] 2 (1991) 99 eksemplarer
Mammutjægerne - 1 (1995) 25 eksemplarer

Associated Works

Mammoths (2007) — Forord, nogle udgaver133 eksemplarer
The Clan of the Cave Bear [1986 film] (1999) — Original book — 42 eksemplarer

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Kanonisk navn
Auel, Jean M.
Juridisk navn
Untinen, Jean Marie
Andre navne
Untinen, Jean Marie (birth name)
Auel, Jean Marie (married name)
Fødselsdato
1936-02-18
Køn
female
Nationalitet
Amerika
Fødested
Chicago, Illinois, Amerika
Bopæl
Chicago, Illinois, Amerika
Portland, Oregon, Amerika
Uddannelse
M.B.A. Universiteit van Portland
Portland State University
Erhverv
novelist
Organisationer
Mensa
Priser og hædersbevisninger
Franse officier in de Orde van kunst en letteren (2008)
Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek voor haar complete oeuvre (1990)
Kort biografi
Jean Marie Untinen was born on February 18, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. She was the second of five children. Her father was a house painter, Neil Solomon Untinen, and her mother Martha Wirtanen.

After high school, Jean M. married Ray Bernard Auel (surname pronounced like "owl"). The Auels moved to Portland, Oregon, where Jean M. raised her five children.

In 1964, Jean M. became a member of Mensa. She attended night school while working: she worked as a clerk (1965–1966), a circuit board designer (1966–1973), technical writer (1973–1974), and a credit manager at Tektronix (1974–1976). In 1976, she earned her M.B.A. at Portland State University; since then she has received honorary degrees from the University of Maine and Mount Vernon College for Women.

Three months after graduation, Jean M. still hadn't found a new job that suited her. About that time she got an idea for a short story about a prehistoric girl. She says, "The 'short story' led me to do some research; the research fired my imagination, and the wealth of material made me decide to write a novel. The first draft turned out to be more than 450,000 words and fell into six parts. On rewriting, I realized each of these six parts was a novel in itself. I have used that rough draft as the outline for the series."

In 1977, Jean M. began extensive library research of the Ice Age for her first book in Earth's Children Series. She joined a survival class to learn how to construct an ice cave, and learned primitive methods of making fire, tanning leather, and knapping stone, from aboriginal skills expert Jim Riggs, who Jean M. describes as "the kind of person you could put into one end of a wilderness naked, and he'd come out the other end fed, clothed, and sheltered."

Jean M. proceeded with work on the first novel. She rewrote it entirely four times, and some parts twenty to thirty times until she was satisfied with the end result. This was in September 1978. She had a hard time finding a publisher to take on the series, given the large task ahead - with five more novels pending. In September 1980, when The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel finally saw the light of day, it was an instant success. Within a month more than 100,000 copies had been sold, after which it was on the best-seller lists for eight more months.

After the success of the first book, Jean M. was able to travel to prehistoric sites and to meet many of the experts with whom she had been corresponding. Her research has taken her across the Old Europe from Spain to Ukraine. She has appreciated Atapuerca's discoveries and she has developed a close friendship with the French Dr. Jean Clottes, who was responsible for, among many other things, the exploration of the Cosquer Cave discovered in 1985 and the Chauvet Cave discovered in 1994.

For the future Jean M. says: "I've been working 17 years on this project, and I want to do something else—maybe a mystery, or a thin little literary science fiction book, or something. But, I admit, I've learned a lot. I love the research. I can't think of anything more fun than learning anything I want and earning a living writing about it the way I want to."

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Europa, ca 25000 år før vor tid
Aula og Jondalar krydser Europa.

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Markeret
bnielsen | 4 andre anmeldelser | Jun 3, 2018 |
Europa, ca 25000 år før vor tid
Aula og Jondalar krydser Europa.

???
 
Markeret
bnielsen | 2 andre anmeldelser | Jun 3, 2018 |
Jeg var meget begejstret Hulebjørnens Klan, og jeg var også grebet af både Hestenes Dal og Mammutjægerne, da jeg læste de tre første bind af Jordens Børn for tyve år siden. Derefter er det gået jævnt ned af bakke med serien, men jeg har svært ved at afgøre, om Auel er kørt træt i sit stof, eller om jeg bare har fået andre præferencer. Forklaringen er sikkert lidt af begge dele.

Under alle omstændigheder er Hulernes Sang ikke en vellykket bog. Det skyldes flere ting: Bogen falder i tre dele, og specielt den første del, der er i umiddelbar forlængelse af Folket i Klippehulerne, mangler simpelthen dramatik og fremdrift. Den anden del beskriver Aylas rundrejse til de hellige huler i området, og her savner man virkelig nogle billeder af malerierne. Endelig er der så det dramatiske højdepunkt, hvor Ayla bliver Zelandoni og er lige ved at miste Jondalar igen.

En modig redaktør havde skåret første del væk, gjort anden del til tre-fire skarpe tilbageblik og bedt Auel koncentrere sig om at fortælle den sidste del af historien på 300 sider. Det ville også have ryddet ud i de alt for mange gentagelser. Der er trods alt grænser for, hvor mange gange man gider læse om dunhammerens nyttige egenskaber. Men det er der jo ingen, der fortæller en storsælgende forfatter.

Grundlæggende har jeg været fascineret af serien, fordi den gør en forsvunden verden levende igen. Måske er det rigtigt, måske ikke, men i hvert fald er det fremmedheden, der er spændende. Derfor er det også irriterende, når kvinderne fører banale samtaler, som om de var soccer moms i en amerikansk forstad. Jeg er helt med på at få lidt feministisk hverdagsdrama med i historien, men desværre bliver det – ligesom i de samlebåndsproducerede femikrimer - for banalt og derfor ligegyldigt.

Selvom Hulernes Sang ikke er nogen stor bog, så er jeg trods alt glad for at have læst den. Når man har glædet sig over de første bind, er man selvfølgelig banalt nysgerrig efter at få slutningen med. Den lever måske ikke op til Hulebjørnens Klan - men den var vitterligt også originalt tænkt.
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Henrik_Madsen | 114 andre anmeldelser | Jun 18, 2011 |
Godt skrevet, spændende og gode beskrivelser af natur og livet for 30.000 år siden, hvor Ayla er blevet udstødt af klanen og må sikre overlevelsen på egen hånd, indtil hun møder en af sin egen art
 
Markeret
bekn | 117 andre anmeldelser | Apr 9, 2008 |

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