Morten Luther Gudmund Korch (1876–1954) was a Danish writer who wrote populist stories and romances about rural Denmark.
[1] Korch was born on 17 January 1876 in the small village of Over Holluf south east of Odense on the island of Fyn, Denmark.
After finishing his apprenticeship, Korch worked for W. Løngreen in Odense, for whom he drove a horse-drawn wagon to farms selling various wares including porcelain and chemicals.
Korch was a writer of populist stories, which centered on the old-fashioned traditions of farms, small shops and rural merchants.
The characters tended to be stereotypes, and the problems clearly marked as a battle between good and evil which were always resolved happily.
The simple story—young newlyweds who try to save the family horse farm from bankruptcy by winning a racing derby—became the biggest box office success in Danish cinema.