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Dorthe Nors was born in 1970 and studied literature at the University of Aarhus. She is one of the most original voices in contemporary Danish literature. Her short stories have appeared in numerous international periodicals including The Boston Review and Harpers, and she is the first Danish writer ever to have a story published in the New Yorker. Nors is the author of the novel Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, a novella Minna Needs Rehearsal Space and a collection of stories Karate Chop, also published by Pushkin Press. Karate Chop won the prestigious P. O. Enquist Literary Prize in 2014. She lives in rural Jutland, Denmark.Lyrical stream-of-consciousness prose is intercut with short, blunt sentences... Misha Hoekstra's translation delicately renders Nors's intensity, along with her subtlety
Times Literary Supplement
How slippery the work of the Danish writer Dorthe Nors is, how it sideswipes and gleams... The sense of simultaneous, furious upwelling into text and retraction into shame or reticence gives the stories a powerful undercurrent, as if they were constantly wrestling with themselves.
- Lauren Groff, New York Review of Books
Cool, razor-sharp stories by a brilliant Danish writer... A brainy collection perfectly constructed to put you on edge.
Kirkus Reviews
Here are fourteen short stories that crisscross borders, both emotional and geographic, while exploring and inhabiting various threshold zones, either directly or by allusion. Often darkly comic and unsettling, Nors's work is always intense, always intuitive, and rich with thought.
Necessary Fiction, Recommended Reading 2021
In fourteen effervescent stories, Dorthe Nors plumbs the depths of the human heart, from desire to melancholy and everything in between.
Entropy Magazine, Best Fiction Books of 2021
Nors's writing creeps up on you, and then overwhelms you with its emotional power. She is a master
- Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick,
Dorthe Nors is fantastic!
- Junot Díaz,
Reading Nors's work, one is reminded of the thrills and dangers of living
- Yiyn Li,
Nors's reinvention of experimental fiction is marvellous
Guardian
They have that sense of life of them... within four pages, she takes you through an extraordinary life - makes you feel exhausted but invigorated
- John Self, BBC Radio 4 Open Book
Lyrical stream-of-consciousness prose is intercut with short, blunt sentences... Misha Hoekstra's translation delicately renders Nors's intensity, along with her subtlety
TLS
Nors writes important modern women's fiction . . . she gives back agency and centrality to older women'
Financial Times
There are bottomless lakes in these brilliantly uneasy stories, and cold, 'unknowable' landscapes, creaking with snow and ice, as in her spare, elegant prose Nors eavesdrops on the inner lives and complicated emotions of her yearning characters
Daily Mail
There's something about the deceptive simplicity of Dorthe Nors's stories that floors me
Red (Online)
An unflinching eye makes the new queen of Danish literature stand out
Big Issue
Dorthe Nors is a writer of moments-quiet, raw portraits of existential meditation, at times dyspeptic, but never unsympathetic
Paris Review 'What We're Loving'
A stunningly original new voice from Denmark... Dorthe Nors has the fabulous talent (...) of restraint... A major new voice in European literature
Booktrust
One of Denmark's most inventive and acclaimed contemporary writers
Bookanista
Throughout, remarkable characters and wonderful lines emerge from the artful prose. This is worth downing in one sitting.
Publishers Weekly