"Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day. "
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,...
Well-known writers who have suffered from writer's block include George Gissing, Samuel Coleridge, Ralph Ellison, Joseph Mitchell and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Writers who overcame writer's block and published new work after a hiatus of decades include Harold Brodkey, whose novel The Runaway Soul appeared some 30 years after it was first projected, and Henry Roth, whose first novel, Call It Sleep, was published in 1934; his second, Mercy Of A Rude Stream, did not appear until 1994.