Therese Tungen is on the shortlist for the European Union Prize for Literature 2020 for her book Love, or something like it.
A huge congratulations to Therese Tungen who has been shortlisted to the prestigious European Union Literature Prize 2020 for her book Love, or something like it.
The book was hailed by Norwegian critics and even mentioned as one of the best of the year when it was published last year.
Love, or something like it is about love and what it does to us. For the persons we meet in this short story collection, the desire to be close to others is both a beautiful and a destructive force.
To read one of the short stories have a look here: https://issuu.com/northernstories/docs/tungen_elskaren_en
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