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  • You must include at least one positive keyword with 3 characters or more.
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2017 Man Booker International Prize Q&amp;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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Fast fact about writing

In some languages, as in English and French, the modern freezing of spelling has removed the writing more and more from pronunciation and has resulted in the need to teach spelling and the growth of fallacies like the "silent" letter (a letter is really either the symbol of a sound or it is unnecessary).