The popular author Flemming Quist Møller died on Monday, 79 years old.
This is what the author’s son, Carl Quist-Møller, tells TV 2 Lorry.
– He fell over at the breakfast table with a blood clot in his heart on Monday – a week ago. He fell into the house in Taarbæk, where he grew up and has also lived the last years of his life. He was placed in a coma at Rigshospitalet. Here we have been sitting around him for a week, says Carl Quist-Møller to TV 2 Lorry.
– On Sunday, the doctors could see that there was nothing more to do. Monday around 12 o’clock he breathed out with those closest to him. We all loved him while his good friend and musician Christian Sievert played ‘Samba Glænø’ on flamenco guitar. The window was open, says the son on the phone from his drawing workshop.
Known for popular works
The multi-artist Flemming Quist Møller, who made a name for himself as an illustrator, children’s book author, musician, film screenwriter and even actor, is especially known for his popular works.
These include the debut book ‘Cykelmyggen Egon’ from 1967, ‘Benny’s bathtub’ from 1969, ‘Snuden’ from 1980 and ‘Jungleader Hugo’ from 1989, which he collaborated on with his son Carl Quist-Møller.
Several of Flemming Quist Møller’s works were published both as children’s books and cartoons.
In 2005, Flemming Quist Møller followed up on the debut book with ‘Cykelmyggen og Dansemyggen’, which was also published as a cartoon in 2007.
Flemming Quist Møller was born on 19 May 1942 and grew up in Taarbæk north of Copenhagen.
After a short education at the Copenhagen animated film company Bent Barfod Film between 1960 and 1961, he later became a self-taught multi-artist, where it was especially as a writer, illustrator, musician and film director that he later became nationally known.
Won several awards
During his many years of work, Flemming Quist Møller received a number of awards and accolades.
Among other things, he received the Gyldendal Children’s Book Prize in 2006 and the Ministry of Culture’s Illustrator Prize in 1983, while he was also awarded an Honorary Bodil in 1994 for his animated films.
In 2019, Quist Møller was awarded the Statens Kunstfond’s lifelong honor.
April 20 is the premiere of ‘The Cursed Years 2’, for which Flemming Quist Møller has written the script. He has managed to see it cut, says his son, Carl Quist-Møller.
– He told director Anders Refn that it is a masterpiece. He had no hanging parties right now. He was reasonably clear with what he had achieved. When he was young, he always said that anything over 60, I consider that a bonus year. The other day he said, ‘now 19 years have passed, it is very well done,’ says Carl Quist-Møller to TV 2 Lorry.