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name: Lise Lyng Falkenberg
about: I'm a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and hold a second Ph.D. degree in Cultural Studies as well as a B.A. in Semiotics.When I was nineteen, I had a manuscript accepted by one of the leading publishing houses in my native country Denmark and so far, close to twenty of my books, mostly novels and biographies, have been published in both Danish and English along with hundreds of short stories, poems, essays, articles and reviews.I have worked for Odense University Library and University of Southern Denmark as a researcher and parallel to my academic career, I took on jobs as a model, graphic artist, musician, carny, journalist, scriptwriter, photographer and director of documentaries and rock videos.In 2005 I decided to put my Danish writing I'm a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and hold a second Ph.D. degree in Cultural Studies as well as a B.A. in Semiotics.When I was nineteen, I had a manuscript accepted by one of the leading publishing houses in my native country Denmark and so far, close to twenty of my books, mostly novels and biographies, have been published in both Danish and English along with hundreds of short stories, poems, essays, articles and reviews.I have worked for Odense University Library and University of Southern Denmark as a researcher and parallel to my academic career, I took on jobs as a model, graphic artist, musician, carny, journalist, scriptwriter, photographer and director of documentaries and rock videos.In 2005 I decided to put my Danish writing career behind me in order to concentrate on the US and the UK, both as a traditionally published author and an independent e-book author. In the US, especially my 2001 Monkees biography "The Monkees - Caught in a False Image" has been successful and was rereleased in an updated e-book version in 2012.In the UK, most people will know me as the author behind the bestselling rock biography “Look Wot I Dun” about powerhouse drummer Don Powell from UK rock band Slade, which was released on Omnibus Press in October 2013. It got excellent reviews in the British music press and the first edition sold out even before it was published.My preference within writing is fiction, though, mainly novels and short stories and always magic realism. My latest book is thus a collection of magic realistic short stories, named Metanoia, and published as an e-book in 2016.Finally, I think it worth mentioning that I’m a descendant of Captain Conrad Wilhelm Ahlefeldt von Falkenberg who - according to German legends - is the Captain of the Flying Dutchman. The infamous army captain and delinquent, whose life has been object of a Danish novel, is my great-great-great-grandfather. Furthermore, I myself have appeared as a fictional character in a novel, namely in Søren Mosegaard’s "Dronning Margrethe von Donner und Blitz" from 2003. ...more