Morten Luther Gudmund Korch (1876-1954) was a Danish writer. He wrote more than 123 books, sold for more than 6 millions in Denmark and received Ridderkorset (the cross of an order of chivalry) in 1937. He was a popular writer, whose environments was build on pre-industrial traditions; farming and small industries. Generally the plots are composed like fairytales and can easily be analyzed as one. The characters are “flat” and the problems are portrayed through the struggle between good and evil – good always wins. Morten Korch was conservative and patriarchal in his way of thinking – he believed in the conservative christen morals.
