EVA TIND is a Copenhagen based writer, artist and filmmaker with a critically acclaimed authorship behind her. She was born in 1974 in Pusan, Korea and adopted to Denmark at the age of one. Today she has a mother in both countries. Based on her education from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture she often manifests her novels, literary portraits and collections of poetry in the related fields of film and fine art.

Tind’s work can be described as world literature: When you move freely in the world you face your origin, your family and yourself with new eyes. Tind often explores the concept of origin and reflects on the nature of belonging and the way we forge our own identity – How much of it is shaped by our environment and what is internal, highlighting how the world can seem very different depending on who is looking at it and from where. Both fictional and non-fictional characters, themes and matter unfold in her stories and surprising connections appear releasing the fixed ideas of what is possible and what is not.

In 2009 Eva Tind’s first book Do was published by Gyldendal Publishers. Do is a collection of poems that mirrors a woman’s  Danish cultural background in her Korean origin.

Tind made her debut in 2009 with the poetry collection Do, which earned her the Danish Academy’s Klaus Rifbjerg Prize. Her work is characterized by genre-blending fiction that spans both autobiographical and exofictional strands: her autobiographical works explore themes of identity, heritage, displacement and transnational adoption, as seen in Origins (nominated for the 2019 DR Romanpris) and The Lemon Mountain (2023), as well as her latest novel, Min Kim (2024); her exofictional works bring significant historical women to life, such as the silent film star Asta Nielsen in Asta’s Shadow (2016) and the forgotten pioneer Marie Hammer in The Woman Who Joined Up the World (2021), whose extensive studies of insects confirmed the theory of continental drift. Tind's latest critically acclaimed novel, Min Kim, hailed as one of the best books of 2024, draws on her own experiences and is constructed around a series of letters exchanged between the author and a childhood friend named Gull-Mai - also known as the Min Kim of the title. Tind sets out to tell the story of their adoption and upbringing, and the result is a powerful, heart-wrenching meditation on identity, family, and cultural loss. 

As an artist, Tind has exhibited works at, among others, the National Gallery of Denmark, The Royal Danish Library, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Göteborg Konsthall, Gangwando Triennale. As a filmmaker, she is behind the art film This Is Not The End Of The World and the documentary A red carpet for Asta Nielsen. Her visual and photographic works are represented by Banja Rathnov Galleri & Clausens Kunsthandel.

In 2014, Eva Tind received a three-year work grant from the Norwegian Arts Foundation. Tind’s novels have been translated and published by publishers such as the Korean Sanzini, the French Gallimard and the German Rowohlt. She is represented internationally by Copenhagen Literary Agency.

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EVA TIND is a Copenhagen based writer, artist and filmmaker with a critically acclaimed authorship behind her. She was born in 1974 in Pusan, Korea and adopted to Denmark at the age of one. Today she has a mother in both countries. Based on her education from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture she often manifests her novels, literary portraits and collections of poetry in the related fields of film and fine art.

Tind’s work can be described as world literature: When you move freely in the world you face your origin, your family and yourself with new eyes. Tind often explores the concept of origin and reflects on the nature of belonging and the way we forge our own identity – How much of it is shaped by our environment and what is internal, highlighting how the world can seem very different depending on who is looking at it and from where. Both fictional and non-fictional characters, themes and matter unfold in her stories and surprising connections appear releasing the fixed ideas of what is possible and what is not.

In 2009 Eva Tind’s first book Do was published by Gyldendal Publishers. Do is a collection of poems that mirrors a woman’s  Danish cultural background in her Korean origin.

Tind made her debut in 2009 with the poetry collection Do, which earned her the Danish Academy’s Klaus Rifbjerg Prize. Her work is characterized by genre-blending fiction that spans both autobiographical and exofictional strands: her autobiographical works explore themes of identity, heritage, displacement and transnational adoption, as seen in Origins (nominated for the 2019 DR Romanpris) and The Lemon Mountain (2023), as well as her latest novel, Min Kim (2024); her exofictional works bring significant historical women to life, such as the silent film star Asta Nielsen in Asta’s Shadow (2016) and the forgotten pioneer Marie Hammer in The Woman Who Joined Up the World (2021), whose extensive studies of insects confirmed the theory of continental drift. Tind's latest critically acclaimed novel, Min Kim, hailed as one of the best books of 2024, draws on her own experiences and is constructed around a series of letters exchanged between the author and a childhood friend named Gull-Mai - also known as the Min Kim of the title. Tind sets out to tell the story of their adoption and upbringing, and the result is a powerful, heart-wrenching meditation on identity, family, and cultural loss. 

As an artist, Tind has exhibited works at, among others, the National Gallery of Denmark, The Royal Danish Library, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Göteborg Konsthall, Gangwando Triennale. As a filmmaker, she is behind the art film This Is Not The End Of The World and the documentary A red carpet for Asta Nielsen. Her visual and photographic works are represented by Banja Rathnov Galleri & Clausens Kunsthandel.

In 2014, Eva Tind received a three-year work grant from the Norwegian Arts Foundation. Tind’s novels have been translated and published by publishers such as the Korean Sanzini, the French Gallimard and the German Rowohlt. She is represented internationally by Copenhagen Literary Agency.

Full CV.