Dea Trier Mørch

Dea Trier Mørch studied at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw and Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. The recorded working language is Danish. Positions recorded include chairperson. Work by Dea Trier Mørch is recorded in the collections of International Institute of Social History. Distinctions recorded are De Gyldne Laurbær and Tagea Brandt Rejselegat.

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). 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 22 languages and, in 1979, led to Astrid Henning-Jensen'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.

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)