a dramatization of The Fellowship of the Ring and his own "Snabelsko and gåsetænder" for the P3 program Børneradio (Kids Radio). Literature He debuted as a literary author with a volume of poems called Gjort bedre før (Done better before) in 1983. In 1993 he published his first novel Rejsen til Alvilva (The Journey to Alvilva) which is built upon the fairytale of Big Klaus and Little Klaus and was his first work of prose. In 1997 he published Midt i himlen, midt i havet (In the midst of the sea, in the midst of heaven), which is a partly autobiographical novel about being blind. In 2010, his experimental psychological thriller, Julius afsind (Julius madness) was chosen as one of the six best books of the year by Danmarks Radio's novel prize committee. The following year he published The Truths Devil's claw, a literary fable of the Russian mystic Rasputin's life. Biographies and family history Besides his works of fiction Rune T. Kidde has written three biographies. Starting with Leveomkostningerne er steget med en femmer per halvflaske – en bog om W. C. Fields (The cost of living has risen by a fiver per half bottle – a book about W. C. Fields) (1986) about the American comedian W. C. Fields and Thormod Kidde, kvindfolk (Thormod Kidde, womenfolk)(2002) about his father illustrator Thormod Kidde. Moreover, in 2007 he published his autobiography Scribbles, scrabble and creative antics. His interest in personal history was also reflected in a comprehensive family history research, and he stands behind the website haraldkidde.dk about the Danish author Harald Kidde, which also contains information about his brother the conservative politician Aage Kidde. His mother Ragnhild Kidde was a potter. She was mentally ill, at times borderline psychotic, and unlike his father very outgoing. Rune T. Kidde has told how as a child he felt like an intermediary, a messenger in the eternal commute between the two parents, who for long periods did not talk to each other, and for equally long periods left their son to himself. The insecure upbringing was, Rune T. Kidde himself thought, a strong contributing factor to the fact that at the age of 15 he suffered from severe depression, which plagued him until he turned 30. But there was another side of the coin, a black sense of humour, which - as he eventually gained control of his creative urge - enabled