‘Bass is, hands down, a master of the short form, creating in a few pages a natural world of mythic proportions’ New York Times Book Review

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Original text © Dorthe Nors 2018
English translation © Misha Hoekstra 2020

Wild Swims was first published as Kort Over Canada by Gydendal in Denmark, 2018

First published by Pushkin Press in 2020

Published by agreement with Ahlander Agency

‘The Freezer Chest’ was published in the New Yorker, USA, May 2015
‘Hygge’ previously appeared in Longreads.com, USA, August 2015, and in Harper’s Magazine, USA, April 2016 
‘By Sydvest Station’ previously appeared in Novelleforlaget, Denmark, 2008, and in Tin House, USA, June 2016
‘In a Deer Stand’ is published in The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat & Other Stories (ed. Sjón and Ted Hodgkinson, Pushkin Press, 2017) and in A Public Space, USA, 2018
‘Sun Dogs’ previously appeared on newyorker.com, USA, July 2018

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Danish Arts Council and its Committee for Literary Project Funding and the Danish Arts Agency for support in the writing and translation of this book – and to Hald Hovedgaard for a writing residency.

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ISBN 13: 978–1–78227–551–0

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