She made her debut as a writer in 1988 with the novel Skrivejomfruen based on the life of the 18th-century Danish author Charlotta Dorothea Biehl.
[1][2][3] Winge was born on 5 January 1937 in the Copenhagen district of Frederiksberg, the daughter of the dental technician Hugo Hagen (1903–91) and Grethe Marie Wilton (1913–95).
[1] In the 1980s, she also held managerial positions in connection with literature and theatre at Danmarks Radio, after which she devoted her time to writing.
She then turned to children's literature, pioneering its inclusion in literary research supported by a number of publications in the early 1990s.
She went on to write several detective stories including Novemberlys (1990), Sandflugt (1991), Den femte vinter (1993) and Grønt mørke (1994).