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Nature Writing

Shortlist 2023

A Line in the World

A Year on the North Sea Coast

By Dorthe Nors and translator Caroline Waight

This is the story of the windswept coastline that stretches from the northernmost tip of Denmark to the Netherlands, a world of shipwrecks and storm surges, of cold-water surfers and resolute sailors’ wives. In spellbinding prose, award-winning writer Dorthe Nors invites the reader to travel through the landscape where her family lived for generations and which she now calls home. It is an extraordinarily powerful and beautiful journey through history and memory – the landscape’s as well as her own.

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About Dorthe Nors and translator Caroline Waight

Dorthe Nors was born in 1970 and studied literature at the University of Aarhus. Her short stories have appeared in numerous international publications including the Boston ReviewHarper’s and the New Yorker. Nors’s works include Wild SwimsKarate ChopMinna Needs Rehearsal Space, and Mirror, Shoulder, Signal – shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize – which are all published by Pushkin Press. Born in rural Jutland, she lives on the North Sea coast in Denmark.

Caroline Waight is an award-winning literary translator working from Danish, Norwegian and German. She lives and works in London.

Author photo credit: Astrid Dalum