Nils All Alone
Palle Alene i Verden - på engelsk: Nils All Alone.
Min fars lillebror, Jens Sigsgaard skrev børnebogen "Palle alene i Verden" i 1942, samme år som jeg blev født.
Bogen handler kort fortalt om drengen Palle, som en morgen vågner op og er helt alene i verden. Farbror Jens havde sin storebrors børn i tankerne da han skrev bogen. Her fortæller Palle bl.a., at han på den tomme legeplads savner "Poul og Kirsten", navnene på mine to ældre søskende. Da jeg kort efter bogens udgivelse skulle døbes burde mit navn naturligvis have været Palle - men det blev til Niels, efter min morfar.
Børnebogen blev hurtigt meget populær, og da den 5 år senere udkom på verdenssproget engelsk, ændrede farbror Jens fornuftigt nok navnet Palle til Nils.
Ude i den store verden er jeg derfor mest kendt som ham drengen Nils, der er helt alene i verden…
in English:
My father's younger brother, Jens Sigsgaard wrote the Danish children's book “Palle alene I Verdenen” (in English: “Palle Alone in the World") in 1942, the same year I was born.
The book is basically about the boy Palle, who one morning wakes up and is all alone in the world. My uncle Jens had his big brothers children in mind when he wrote the book. Here Palle f.ex. states, that on the empty playground he miss "Poul and Kirsten", the names of my older brother and sister.
Shortly after the book's publication I was to be baptized, and my name, of course, should have been Palle - but became Niels, after my grandfather.
The book quickly became very popular, and when, 5 years later it was published in english worldwide, my uncle Jens sensible enough name Palle to Nils.
So, out in the big world, I am therefore most famous as the boy Nils, who is “all alone in the world” ...
My father's younger brother, Jens Sigsgaard wrote the Danish children's book “Palle alene I Verdenen” (in English: “Palle Alone in the World") in 1942, the same year I was born.
The book is basically about the boy Palle, who one morning wakes up and is all alone in the world. My uncle Jens had his big brothers children in mind when he wrote the book. Here Palle f.ex. states, that on the empty playground he miss "Poul and Kirsten", the names of my older brother and sister.
Shortly after the book's publication I was to be baptized, and my name, of course, should have been Palle - but became Niels, after my grandfather.
The book quickly became very popular, and when, 5 years later it was published in english worldwide, my uncle Jens sensible enough name Palle to Nils.
So, out in the big world, I am therefore most famous as the boy Nils, who is “all alone in the world” ...