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.
Each spring and fall, NORLA chooses a selection of Norwegian books of current interest for book fairs and literary events.
We’re thrilled that TWO of our authors have been selected to the list for Spring 2022: Therese Tungen’s “TURN AROUND” and Thomas Reinertsen Berg’s “TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH”
Therese Tungen’s latest book, Turn Around was launched last week.
Therese Tungen is on the shortlist for the European Union Prize for Literature 2020 for her book Love, or something like it.
