Lit in Translation

Dorthe Nors

Born 1970 · Denmark

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Warwick Prize 2023 · Shortlist

    A Line in the World

    En linje i verden

    Dorthe Nors · 51 when first published

    Nonfiction · 240 pages · Nature

    Translated by Caroline Waight

    AI-generated summary:Over the course of a year, the author travels the coastline that runs from Skagen at Denmark's northern tip to where the Wadden Sea begins in the Netherlands, in essays about the sea, the land and the people who live with an untamed nature.

  • In English

    International Booker 2017 · Shortlist

    Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

    Spejl, skulder, blink

    Dorthe Nors · 46 when first published

    Novel · 188 pages

    Translated by Misha Hoekstra

    AI-generated summary:Sonja, a single, anxious woman in her forties living in Copenhagen, is trying and failing to learn to drive under a domineering instructor, while bouts of vertigo and memories of her rural childhood pull her off course.