Therese Tungen is the principal of Samlaget’s Writers’ School. A former editor at Samlaget and literary critic for Morgenbladet and Klassekampen, she made her acclaimed debut with Once They Were Wolves (2017), followed by Love and What Resembles It (2019), nominated for the 2020 EU Prize for Literature. In 2022, she published the highly praised Turn Around: Edvin’s Book.
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.
