Dorthe Nors is one of the most original voices of contemporary Danish letters. She has written two celebrated short story collections, Karate Chop and Wild Swims, as well as one novella and five novels, including the most recent: Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (2016), which was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2017.

Nors’s short stories have appeared in countless publications, including Harper’s Magazine, Boston Review, AGNI, and Guernica. She is the first Danish writer to ever have a story published in The New Yorker.
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In 2011, she was awarded the Danish Arts Agency’s Three Year Grant for “her unusual and extraordinary talent.” In 2014, her story collection Karate Chop won the prestigious P.O. Enquist Literary Prize. Nors’s latest novel, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, was published to rave reviews in 2016.
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal was a finalist for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize.
Nors’s latest short story collection, Wild Swims, was published by Gyldendal in August 2018.
Dorthe Nors was born in 1970 in Herning, Denmark and currently lives in Jutland. Nors holds a degree in literature and art history from the University of Aarhus. In addition to her two celebrated short story collections, Karate Chop (Kantslag, 2008) and Wild Swims (Kort over Canada, 2018), she has published one novella and five novels, including the most recent: Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (Spejl, skulder, blink, 2016).
Nors’s short stories have appeared in countless publications, including Harper’s Magazine, Boston Review, AGNI, and Guernica.She is the first Danish writer to ever have a story published in The New Yorker.
In 2011, she was awarded the Danish Arts Agency’s Three Year Grant for “her unusual and extraordinary talent.” In 2014, her story collection Karate Chop won the prestigious P.O. Enquist Literary Prize.
Nors’s latest novel, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, was published to rave reviews in 2016 and it was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2017.
Nors’s recent short story collection, Wild Swims, was published by Gyldendal in August 2018.
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