on Monday had a number of Danish bookstores sold out to the customers, who stuck his head into the store to buy the black poetry collection ‘Yahya Hassan 2’, which out of the blue was released Friday.
In Politiken’s Bookstore in the town hall square in Copenhagen sounds the message, that you easily could have sold at least double the number of them, one had received in the first consignment, where you got 150 copies.
It is reported, however, that again would be fresh supplies of the sought-after poems in the store.
‘Yahya Hassan 2’
‘Yahya Hassan 2’ is a very personal collection of poetry from Yahya Hassan, where he is In the 59 poems tells its history, from the time he is 18 years old debut author and self-proclaimed ‘præmieperker’ with police protection, for he is hunted game, the assailant, imprisoned, hospitalized, ‘psykoseperker’ and without a place to be.
It is the poetry of doubt, collapse, anger, and loneliness, of the violence and the madness in the world and in oneself and to the love and the vicinity, but could not keep the sounds in the publisher’s description.
When Yahya Hassan six years ago, made his debut, was his collection of poems printed in a modest first few copies at 800.
the Collection, which is just a bar Yahya Hassan’s name, ended up selling more than 122.000 copies, which is quite extraordinary for a Danish collection of poems.
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Yahya Hassan at the book fair BogForum at Forum Copenhagen in the wake of the release of his first poetry collection in 2013. Photo: Finn Frandsen
Wise of the success of the publisher has chosen to press 25,000 of ‘Yahya Hassan 2’, and there are indications that English is going to start pressing machines again, if there must be poetry enough to satisfy the christmas shopping season barely started.
– the Sale of ‘Yahya Hassan 2’ is excellent. We are approaching the 10,000 copies sold, communicate to the forlagschef Simon Pasternak in an email response to Ekstra Bladet.
Yahya Hassan photographed on the street in Aarhus. Photo: Ernst van Norde
‘Yahya Hassan 2’ sold for 200 dollars in stores, which means that 10,000 copies sold, equal to a turnover of two million dollars.
Should ‘Yahya Hassan 2’ end with selling as well as etteren, this means a revenue of tens of millions of dollars.
It is not known how many of millionerne accruing to Hassan, who has just now voluntarily hospitalized at the Retspsykiatrisk Department in Skejby in Aarhus.
Usually receive authors about 15 percent of the final price excluding vat, which in this case would be 24 dollars per. sold book.
Yahya Hassan’s second book of poems since his debut ‘Yahya Hassan’ in 2013. Photo: Ida Guldbæk Arentsen/Ritzau Scanpix
the 24-year-old Yahya Hassen was a year ago sentenced to psychiatric treatment.
He pleaded guilty to 42 offences ranging from violence and threats of vandalism and breach of the restraining order against to seek out an ex-girlfriend.
A retspsykiatrisk statement has established that the poet probably was insane at the times when the crimes took place.
the Blue book:
19. may 1995, in Aarhus V of palestinian parents.
Parents divorced when he was seven years old. At the age of 13 he was removed from the home and placed in the institution.
In a social-pedagogical residence developed the then 16-year-old Hassan an error to a 38-year-old contact. The woman was later convicted of having had sexual intercourse with Hassan.
Yahya Hassan has gone on forfatterskolen.
In October 2013, he released the book ‘Yahya Hassan’, who with 122,000 copies sold was the so far best-selling debutdigtsamling.
In april 2015, announced Hassan, that he would run for Parliament for Nationalpartiet. The party, however not to be opstillingsberettiget, and Hassan posed as a non-attached member, but was not elected.
the Year after he was thrown out of the party, after he had been arrested for narkokørsel.
Yahya Hassan has a number of convictions for among other things, theft, receiving stolen goods, and to have shot a 17-year-old man in the foot.
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