Therese Tungen shortlisted
Therese Tungen is on the shortlist for the European Union Prize for Literature 2020 for her book Love, or something like it.
Therese Tungen has worked as an editor for many years, getting her start at the publishing house Oktober, where she, among other things, co-edited Karl Ove Knausgård’s My Struggle. She has published two books: Once They Were Wolves and Love, or Something Like It. Therese was awarded Aschehoug’s debut scholarship for 2017, and in 2018 she received the Bjørnson Scholarship. In 2020, Love, or Something Like It it was shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature. She is now a non-fiction editor at Det Norske Samlaget.