Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz, folút: Dean Ray Koontz (Everett (Pennsylvania), 9 july 1945), is in wrâldferneamde Amerikaanske skriuwer fan thrillers en horrorferhalen. Ien fan syn boeken is fertaald yn it Frysk, ntl. De Fizioenen fan Mary (orizjinele titel: The Vision), dat oerset is troch Henk Wolf.
Dean Koontz | ||
skriuwer | ||
persoanlike bysûnderheden | ||
echte namme | Dean Ray Koontz | |
nasjonaliteit | Amerikaansk | |
berne | 9 july 1945 | |
berteplak | Everett (Pennsylvania) | |
etnisiteit | Dútsk | |
wurk | ||
taal | Ingelsk | |
sjenre | skrillers, horror, SF | |
bekendste wurk(en) |
The Vision Trapped (Ned.: In de Val) | |
útjouwer | Bantam Books | |
jierren aktyf | 1965 – no | |
offisjele webside | ||
www.deankoontz.com |
Biografy
bewurkje seksjeKoontz groeide op yn in gesin dêr't syn alkoholistyske heit him geregeldwei mishannele, wat in grutte ynfloed op syn lettere skriuwen hie, krekt as de moed fan syn ûnmânske mem yn har ferset tsjin syn heit. Yn syn studintetiid begûn Koontz syn skriuwkarriêre en al rillegau wûn er syn earste priis (yn in skriuwwedstryd fan it tydskrift Atlantic Monthly).
Nei't er yn 1967 ôfstudearre wie, wurke er as learaar Ingelsk oan in middelbere skoalle yn Mechanicsburg. Yn syn frije tiid skreau er syn earste roman, Star Quest, in science fictionferhaal dat yn 1968 útjûn waard. Nei noch in stikmannich oar science fictionromans skreaun te hawwen, stapte er oer nei thrillers en horror. Koontz wie fral yn 'e jierren santich in tige produktyf skriuwer; yn syn topjier 1972 kamen der bgl. njoggen boeken fan him út.
Yn 'e jierren santich en tachtich makke er ek in soad gebrûk fan pseudonimen, mei't syn útjouwer tsjin him sein hie dat skriuwers dy't hinne en wer sprongen tusken ferskillende literêre sjenres, sa't hy dat die, it risiko rûnen om harren lêzers fan har te ferfrjemdzjen. Nei al mear as tsien jier skreaun te hawwen, briek Koontz yn 1980 einlik (ûnder syn eigen namme) troch mei de roman Whispers (fan 'e beide foargeande boeken, The Key to Midnight en The Funhouse wiene ek al mear as in miljoen eksimplaren ferkocht, mar dy wiene ûnder in pseudonym skreaun).
Fan Koontz is bekend dat er polityk konservatyf is en in oanhinger fan 'e Republikeinen. Sa stipe er yn 2008 aktyf en finansjeel de kampanje fan 'e Republikeinske presidintskandidaat John McCain. Koontz wennet yn 'e omkriten fan Los Angeles, yn Kalifornje, dêr't ek syn measte romans spylje.
Bibliografy
bewurkje seksjeRomans en oar oerset wurk
bewurkje seksjeIngelske titel | jier | Fryske titel | Nederlânske titel | searje | ûnder pseudonym |
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Star Quest | 1968 | ||||
Fear that Man | 1969 | ||||
The Fall of the Dream Machine | 1969 | ||||
The Dark Symphony | 1969 | ||||
Hell's Gate | 1970 | ||||
Soft Come the Dragons | 1970 | ferhalebondel | |||
Dark of the Woods | 1970 | ||||
Beastchild | 1970 | ||||
Anti-Man | 1970 | ||||
Demon Child | 1971 | Deana Dwyer | |||
The Crimson Witch | 1971 | ||||
Legacy of Terror | 1971 | Deanna Dwyer | |||
Warlock | 1972 | ||||
Time Thieves | 1972 | ||||
Starblood | 1972 | ||||
The Flesh in the Furnace | 1972 | ||||
A Darkness in My Soul | 1972 | ||||
Chase | 1972 | K.R. Dwyer | |||
Children of the Storm | 1972 | Deanna Dwyer | |||
Dance with the Devil | 1972 | Deanna Dwyer | |||
The Dark of Summer | 1972 | Deanna Dwyer | |||
The Haunted Earth | 1973 | ||||
Demon Seed | 1973 | Duivels Zaad | |||
A Werewolf Among Us | 1973 | ||||
Blood Risk | 1973 | Black Cat Mysteries #1 | |||
Shattered | 1973 | Verbrijzeld | K.R. Dwyer | ||
Hanging On | 1973 | ||||
Surrounded | 1974 | Black Cat Mysteries #2 | |||
Strike Deep | 1974 | Anthony North | |||
After the Last Race | 1974 | ||||
The Wall of Masks | 1975 | Black Cat Mysteries #3 | |||
Nightmare Journey | 1975 | ||||
The Long Sleep | 1975 | John Hill | |||
Dragonfly | 1975 | K.R. Dwyer | |||
Invasion | 1975 | Aaron Wolfe | |||
Prison of Ice | 1976 | David Axton | |||
Night Chills | 1976 | Huiveringen | |||
The Face of Fear | 1977 | Gezicht van de angst | Brian Coffey | ||
The Vision | 1977 | De Fizioenen fan Mary | Het Visioen | ||
The Key to Midnight | 1979 | De Sleutel tot Middernacht | Leigh Nichols | ||
The Funhouse | 1980 | Owen West | |||
Whispers | 1980 | Gefluister | |||
The Voice of the Night | 1980 | De Stem van de Nacht | Brian Coffey | ||
The Eyes of Darkness | 1981 | Ogen der Duisternis Ogen van Angst (2011) |
Leigh Nichols | ||
The Mask | 1981 | Het Masker | Owen West | ||
The House of Thunder | 1982 | Het Huis van de Donder | Leigh Nichols | ||
Phantoms | 1983 | Fantomen | |||
Darkfall | 1984 | Schemerzone | |||
Twilight | 1984 | Leigh Nichols | |||
Twilight Eyes | 1985 | Schemerogen | |||
The Door to december | 1985 | De Deur naar December | Richard Paige | ||
Strangers | 1986 | Motel van de Angst | |||
Watchers | 1987 | Het Franciscus Komplot | |||
Shadowfires | 1987 | Schaduwvuur | Leight Nichols | ||
The Servents of Twilight | 1987 | Dienaren van de Schemering | Leigh Nichols | ||
Lightning | 1988 | Weerlicht | |||
Oddkins: A Fable for All Ages | 1987 | ||||
Midnight | 1989 | Middernacht | |||
Trapped | 1989 | In de Val | koarte novelle | ||
The Bad Place | 1991 | Het Kwade Licht | |||
Cold Fire | 1992 | Het Koude Vuur | |||
Hideaway | 1992 | Onderaards | |||
Dragon Tears | 1993 | Monster Klok | |||
Mr. Murder | 1993 | Mr. Murder | |||
Winter Moon | 1994 | Wintermaan | |||
Dark Rivers of the Heart | 1994 | Duistere Stromen | |||
Icebound | 1995 | IJskerker | |||
Strange Highways | 1995 | Eeuwig Vuur | ferhalebondel | ||
Intensity | 1995 | De Sadist | |||
Ticktock | 1996 | Tiktak | |||
Demon Seed | 1997 | Duivels Zaad | werskreaun | ||
Sole Survivor | 1997 | De Overlevende | |||
Fear Nothing | 1998 | Vrees Niets | Moonlight Bay #1 | ||
Seize the Night | 1998 | Grijp de Nacht | Moonlight Bay #2 | ||
False Memory | 1999 | Geheugenfout | |||
From the Corner of His Eye | 2000 | Verblind | |||
One Door Away from Heaven | 2001 | Verlossing | |||
By the Light of the Moon | 2002 | Bij het Licht van de Maan | |||
The Face | 2003 | Spiegel van de Ziel | |||
Odd Thomas | 2003 | De Gave | Odd Thomas #1 | ||
The Taking | 2004 | Gegrepen | |||
Life Expectancy | 2004 | Tijd van Leven | |||
Velocity | 2005 | De Nachtmerrie | |||
Prodigal Son | 2005 | De Verloren Zoon | Frankenstein #1 | (mei Kevin J. Anderson) | |
City of Night | 2005 | Stad van de Nacht | Frankenstein #2 | (mei Ed Gorman) | |
Forever Odd | 2005 | De Vriendschap | Odd Thomas #2 | ||
The Husband | 2006 | De Echtgenoot | |||
Brother Odd | 2006 | De Broeder | Odd Thomas #3 | ||
The Good Guy | 2007 | Wie goed doet | |||
The Darkest Evening of the Year | 2008 | De Donkerste Nacht | |||
Odd Hours | 2008 | De Ziener | Odd Thomas #4 | ||
Your Heart Belongs to Me | 2008 | Jouw Hart is van Mij | |||
In Odd We Trust | 2008 | Odd Thomas stripferhaal-prequel | |||
Relentless | 2009 | Het Oordeel | |||
Dead and Alive | 2009 | De Levende Doden | Frankenstein #3 | ||
Breathless | 2009 | Ademloos | |||
Lost Souls | 2010 | Verloren Zielen | Frankenstein #4 | ||
Darkness under the Sun | 2010 | De Ravenzwarte Veer | prequel f. What the Night Knows | ||
What the night knows | 2010 | Veertien | |||
Odd Is on Our Side | 2010 | Odd Thomas stripferhaal-prequel | |||
77 Shadow Street | 2011 | De Vloek | |||
House of Odd | 2012 | Odd Thomas stripferhaal-prequel | |||
Odd Interlude (novella) | 2012 | Odd Thomas 3-dielich e-boek | |||
Odd Apocalypse | 2012 | Odd Thomas #5 | |||
Odd Interlude (A Special Odd Thomas Adventure) | 2013 | Odd Thomas-ferhaal | |||
Deeply Odd | 2013 | Odd Thomas #6 | |||
Ride the Storm | ? | Moonlight Bay #3 | (noch net útjûn) | ||
Saint Odd | ? | Odd Thomas #7 | (moat noch skreaun wurde) |
Koarte (ûnoersette) fiksje
bewurkje seksje- This Fence (1965)
- The Kittens (1965) (werskreaun as Kittens yn 1966)
- Of Childhood (1965)
- A Miracle is Anything (1966)
- Cloistered Walls (1966)
- Flesh (1966)
- For a Breath I Tarry (1966)
- Hey, Good Christian (1966)
- Holes (1966)
- It (1966)
- I've Met One (1966)
- Mold in the Jungle (1966)
- Sam: the Adventurous Exciting Well-traveled Man (1966)
- Some Disputed Barricade (1966)
- Something About This City (1966)
- The Rats Run (1966)
- The Standard Unusual (1966)
- Where No One Fell (1967)
- Soft Come the Dragons (1967)
- To Behold the Sun (1967)
- Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter One (1967)
- Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter Two (1967)
- Love 2005 (1968)
- A Darkness in My Soul (1968)
- The Psychedelic Children (1968)
- The Twelfth Bed (1968)
- Dreambird (1968)
- Glunk (1969
- Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter Three (1969)
- Whoop, the Dead Gerkle (1969)
- In the Shield (1969) (letter kombinearre mei Where the Beast Runs ta Fear That Man)
- Temple of Sorrow (1969)
- Killerbot (1969)
- The Face in His Belly diel 1 (1969)
- Where the Beast Runs (1969) (letter kombinearre mei In the Shield ta Fear That Man)
- Dragon In the Land (1969)
- The Face in His Belly diel 2 (1969)
- Muse (1969)
- A Third Hand (1970) (letter útwreide ta Starblood)
- The Good Ship Lookoutworld (1970)
- Unseen Warriors (1970)
- The Mystery of His Flesh (1970) (letter útwreide ta Anti-Man)
- Beastchild (1970) (letter úwreide ta de roman Beastchild)
- The Crimson Witch (1970) (letter justjes útwreide ta de roman The Crimson Witch)
- Shambolain (1970)
- Nightmare Gang (1970)
- Emanations (1970)
- Bruno (1971)
- The Terrible Weapon (1972)
- Cosmic Sin (1972)
- Altarboy (1972)
- Ollie's Hands (1972)
- A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village (1972)
- Grayworld (1973) (útwreide ta The Long Sleep)
- The Sinless Child (1973)
- Wake Up To Thunder (1973)
- Terra Phobia (1973)
- The Undercity (1973)
- We Three (1974)
- Night of the Storm (1974)
- Down in the Darkness (1986)
- Weird World (1986)
- Snatcher (1986)
- The Monitors of Providence (1986)
- The Black Pumpkin (1986)
- The Interrogation (1987)
- Hardshell (1987)
- Miss Atilla the Hun (1987)
- Twilight of the Dawn (1987)
- Graveyard Highway (1987)
- Trapped (1989)
- Santa's Twin (1996)
- Pinkie (1998)
- Black River (1999)
Essays en ynliedings
bewurkje seksje- Of Childhood (1966)
- Ibsen's Dream (1966)
- ynlieding ta Great Escapes: New Designs for Home Theaters troch Theo Kalomirakis (2003)
- wurd foarôf ta Love Heels: Tales from Canine Companions for Independence (2003)
- wurd foarôf ta A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement troch Wesley J. Smith (2009)
Filmadaptaasjes
bewurkje seksje- Demon Seed (1977)
- The Intruder (1977)
- Watchers (1988)
- Whispers (1990)
- Watchers II (1990)
- The Face of Fear (1990)
- The Servants of Twilight [1991)
- Watchers 3 (1994)
- Hideaway (1995)
- Intensity (1997)
- Mr. Murder (1998)
- Phantoms (1998)
- Watchers Reborn (1998)
- Sole Survivor (2000)
- Black River (2001)
- Frankenstein (2004)
- The Husband (2012)
- Odd Thomas (2013)
Keppelings om utens
bewurkje seksjeBoarnen, noaten en/as referinsjes: |
Foar boarnen en oare literatuer, sjoch ûnder: References, op dizze side. |