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Dorthe Nors
Birth Date:20 May 1970
Birth Place:Herning, Denmark
Occupation:Author
Language:Danish, English
Education:Cand.mag.
Alma Mater:Aarhus University
Genre:Literary fiction
Years Active:2002–present
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Dorthe Nors (born 20 May 1970) is a Danish writer. She is the author of Soul, Karate Chop, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, and Wild Swims.

Background

Nors was born in Herning, Denmark, the youngest of three children. As a child, she enjoyed making up stories that her mother, a teacher and painter, would write down and read back to her. At the age of eleven, she began writing her own stories, poems, and plays.[1]

In 1999, Nors graduated from Aarhus University with a degree in literature and art history.[2] [3]

Career

Before Nors' literary debut in her own name, she worked as a translator of Swedish crime novels, mostly books by author Johan Theorin.[4]

She made her debut in 2002, with the book Soul, published by Samlerens Forlag.[3] Her English-language following began in 2009, when selections from her short story collection Karate Chop were published in English. She became the first Danish writer to have a story published in The New Yorker, when it printed her story "The Heron" in 2013. In 2015, her first short story collection Karate Chop was published in English alongside So Much for That Winter, a joint publication of her novellas Minna Needs Rehearsal Space and Days.[1] Her second collection of short stories Wild Swims was published in English in 2021 by Graywolf Press.

In 2017, she was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize for her novel Mirror, Shoulder, Signal. Her nonfiction book A Line in the World was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle award in autobiography.[5]

Personal life

Nors lived in Copenhagen for several years before moving back to Jutland in 2013.[1] She has written about not feeling she fits in to Copenhagen's literary scene.[6]

Bibliography

Nonfiction

Novels

Short fiction

Collections
Stories[7]
width=25%TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes
data-sort-value="heron"The heron2013Nors . Dorthe . The heron . . 9 September 2013.
data-sort-value="freezer chest"The freezer chest2015Nors . Dorthe . Translated from the Danish by Misha Hockstra . The freezer chest . The New Yorker . 91 . 14 . 64–67 . 25 May 2015.

References

  1. Dorthe Nors . Current Biography . 79 . 2 . 73–78 . February 2018.
  2. Web site: Nors, Dorthe — Forfatterweb . 14 October 2015.
  3. Web site: Dorthe Nors . 14 October 2015.
  4. https://www.gp.se/kulturnoje/1.2815655-dorthe-nors-har-en-ovningslokal Dorthe Nors har en övningslokal
  5. Web site: Varno . David . 2023-02-01 . NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2022 . 2023-02-03 . National Book Critics Circle . en-US.
  6. News: Nors . Dorthe . A wolf in Jutland: Dorthe Nors on the writing life in Denmark . 24 May 2024 . The Guardian . 16 December 2015 . I wanted to be part of the scene, and yet I didn’t, after all. I couldn’t anyway, and for seven years I sat in Copenhagen, stuck fast like a burr on the back of a cat.
  7. Short stories unless otherwise noted.

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