Therese Tungen

Therese Tungen (b. 1977) is from Kvam in Gudbrandsdalen and lives in Oslo. A former editor at Samlaget and literary critic for Morgenbladet and Klassekampen, she studied writing at Bø and the Aschehoug Writers’ School. Her critically acclaimed debut short story collection, Once They Were Wolves (2017), was nominated for the Norwegian Youth Critics’ Prize and awarded the Aschehoug Debut Grant and the Bjørnson Grant. Her follow-up, Love and What Resembles It (2019), was nominated for the 2020 EU Prize for Literature. In 2022, she published the acclaimed Turn Around: Edvin’s Book. Her new novel, The Other Side of the River, will be published in autumn 2025.

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