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 three books: Once They Were Wolves , Love, or Something Like It and Turn Around. 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.
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.
