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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

It has been said that a monkey, randomly typing away on a typewriter (in the days when typewriters replaced the pen or plume as the preferred instrument of writing) could re-create Shakespeare-- but only if it lived long enough (this is known as the infinite monkey theorem).