Dorthe Nors

Dorthe Nors (born 20 May 1970) is a Danish writer. She is the author of Soul, Karate Chop, and Mirror, Shoulder, Signal.

Background
Nors was born in Herning, Denmark, the youngest of three children. As a child, she enjoyed making up stories that her mother, a teacher and painter, would write down and read back to her. At age eleven, she began writing her own stories, poems, and plays.

In 1999, Nors graduated from Aarhus University with a degree in literature and art history.

Career
Before to Nors' literary debut in her own name, she worked as a translator of Swedish crime novels, mostly books by author Johan Theorin.

In 2002 she made her debut with the book Soul, published by Samlerens Forlag. Her English-language following began in 2009 when selections from her short story collection, Karate Chop, were published in English. She became the first Danish writer to have a story published in The New Yorker when they printed her story "The Heron" in 2013. In 2015, her short story collection Karate Chop was published in English alongside So Much for That Winter, a join publication of her novellas Minna Needs Rehearsal Space and Days.

In 2017, she was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize for her novel Mirror, Shoulder, Signal.

Personal life
Nors lived in Copenhagen for several years before moving back to Jutland in 2013.

Bibliography

Short stories and novellas
Hun kommer , Samlerens Forlag 2007
Dage , Samlerens Forlag 2010 
Minna mangler et øvelokale, Samlerens Forlag 2013 
The Heron, The New  Yorker, (September 9, 2013).

Novels
Soul, Samlerens Forlag 2001 
Stormesteren, Samlerens Forlag 2003 
Ann Lie,  2005 
Kantslag, Samlerens Forlag 2008 
Spejl, skulder, blink, Gyldendal 2015 
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, (translated by Misha Hoekstra), Graywolf Press 2018

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Further reading

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Category:1970 births
Category:Living people
Category:21st-century Danish short story writers
Category:21st-century women writers
Category:Danish women short story writers
Category:21st-century Danish novelists
Category:Danish women novelists