Jesper Wung-Sung

About The Author

Jesper Wung-Sung is the author of the 1998 BogForum Award–winning debut collection of short stories Kick and Rush, and the 2010 Danish Ministry of Culture’s Author Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Books winner The Copies. In 2011 he was awarded the Danish Library Association’s Prize for Children’s Books, and in 2012 he was listed as the most-read Danish young adult author. He lives in Svendborg, Denmark, with his family.

Books by Jesper Wung-Sung

The Last Execution
Based on the chilling true story of the last execution in Denmark’s history, this award-winning, mesmerizing novel asks a question that plagues a small Danish town: does a fifteen-year-old boy deserve to be put to death?
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