Linn Tormodsdatter Grøndahl Sunne (born 2 December 1971) is a Norwegian

children's writer Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's ...

. Sunne resides in

Dokka Dokka is the administrative centre of Nordre Land Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located at the confluence of the rivers Dokka and Etna, about north of the lake Randsfjorden, the fourth largest lake in Norway. The vi ...

. She made her literary debut in 2000. She was awarded the

Brage Prize The Brage Prize (Norwegian: ''Brageprisen'') is a Norwegian literature prize that is awarded annually by the Norwegian Book Prize foundation (''Den norske bokprisen''). The prize recognizes recently published Norwegian literature. The Brage Priz ...

in 2007 for the children's book ''Happy''. In 2012 she again received the Brage Prize, for the children's book ''Lille ekorn''. Sunne was educated as a teacher at

Oslo University College Oslo University College ( no, Høgskolen i Oslo; HiO) was the largest state university college in Norway from 1994 to 2011, with more than 18,000 students and approximately 1800 employees.

in 1995, and spent the next eleven years as a lower secondary school teacher. She was also a screenwriter for ''

Hotel Cæsar ''Hotel Cæsar'' is a Norwegian soap opera that aired on TV 2 from 24 October 1998 until 14 December 2017. From the start in 1998, the show was broadcast Monday to Friday, except during the autumn of 2006, where the show was broadcast Monday t ...

'' between 2003 and 2005. Becoming involved in politics for the Labour Party, she was elected to

Nordre Land Nordre Land is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Land. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Dokka. Other villages in the municipality include Vest-Torpa, Nord-To ...

municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural counci ...

and served as deputy mayor from 2019.

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1971 births Living people People from Nordre Land Norwegian children's writers Norwegian schoolteachers Oppland politicians Labour Party (Norway) politicians {{Norway-writer-stub