Dea Trier Mørch
Dea Trier Mørch (9 December 1941 – 26 May 2001) was a Danish artist and writer.[1] She gained fame in 1976 with Vinterbørn, translated into English as Winter's Child.[2]
Biography
Born in Copenhagen, Mørch was the daughter of the architect Ibi Trier Mørch and the musical entertainer Troels Trier. She studied painting at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1964, and continued her education until 1967 at the art academies of Warsaw, Krakow, Belgrade, Leningrad and Prague. Her first book, Sorgmunter socialisme. Sovjetiske raderinger (1968), illustrated with her own etchings, gave an account of her travels to the Soviet Union. She became a member of the Danish Communist Party and the socially oriented culture collective Røde Mor meaning Red Mother.[1]
In 1976, she published Vinterbørn based on her experience of giving birth to three children in Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet. The book received wide acclaim, was translated into 16 languages and, in 1979, led to an award-winning film version directed by Astrid Henning-Jensen.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Dea Trier Mørch" (in Danish). Den Store Danske. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Anne Birgitte Richard. "Dea Trier Mønch". The History of Nordic Women's Literature. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ^ Morch, Dea Trier (1987). Winter's Child. U of Nebraska Press. pp. 270–. ISBN 0-8032-8133-1.