Dea Trier Mørch

Dea Trier Mørch (9 December 1941 – 26 May 2001) was a Danish artist and writer. 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 Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 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). 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)