Dea Trier Mørch (9 December 1941 – 26 May 2001) was a Danish artist and writer.Marianne Zibrandtsen
''Dea Trier Mørch''
Den Store Danske, retrieved 18 January 2015 (Danish). She gained fame in 1976 with ''Vinterbørn'', translated into English as ''Winter's Child''.

Biography

Born in Copenhagen, Mørch was the daughter of the architect Ibi Trier Mørch. She studied painting at the

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, graduating in 1964, and continued her education until 1967 at the art academies of Warsaw, Kraków, Belgrade, Leningrad and Prague. Her first book, ''Sorgmunter socialisme. Sovjetiske raderinger'' (1968), illustrated with her own etchings, gives an account of her travels to the Soviet Union. She became a member of the Danish Communist Party and, in 1969, was a co-founder of the socially oriented culture collective Røde Mor (Red Mother). In 1976, she published ''Vinterbørn'' based on her experience of giving birth to three children in Copenhagen's

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. The book received wide acclaim, was translated into 22 languages and, in 1979, led to

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's award-winning film version. Other works dealing with family and socialism include: ''Den indre by'' (The Inner City, 1980), ''Aftenstjernen'' (1982, translated into English as ''Evening Star''), and the love story ''Morgengaven'' (Morning Gift, 1984). Later works include: a travel book ''Da jeg opdagede Amerika'' (When I Discovered America, 1986); and ''Landskab i to etager'' (Two-Storey Landscape, 1992), involving complications in a relationship of a couple who meet later in life.

Selected works

Dea Trier Mønch's published works include: * ''Sorgmunter socialisme'' (reporting on the Soviet Union, 1968) * ''Polen'' (travel, 1970) * ''Vinterbørn'' (1976), translated into English as ''Winter's Child'' * ''Kastaniealleen'' (1978) * ''Den indre by'' (1980) * ''Aftenstjernen'' (1982), translated into English as ''Evening Star'' * ''Morgengaven'' (1984) * ''Da jeg opdagede Amerika'' (travel, 1986) * ''Skibet i flasken'' (1988) * ''Landskab i to etager'' (1992) * ''Hvide løgne'' (correspondence novel, written together with her daughter Sara Trier, 1995)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Morch, Dea Trier 1941 births 2001 deaths Writers from Copenhagen Artists from Copenhagen Danish women novelists Danish women printmakers Danish women artists 20th-century Danish novelists 20th-century Danish women writers 20th-century Danish printmakers Danish feminists Danish socialist feminists Burials at Holmen Cemetery