2017 Man Booker International Prize Q&A—Dorthe Nors

Dorthe Nors and her translator Misha Hoekstra are longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for Mirror, Shoulder, Signal.

Words Without Borders (WWB): Tell us about how you became a writer. Was it a vocation, an accident?

Dorthe Nors: I think I was born with a certain sensitivity toward language and a certain need to process the world through language. I figured out I wanted to be a writer when I was eight. From that point and till I published a book,...

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