Linn T. Sunne

Linn Tormodsdatter Grøndahl Sunne (born 2 December 1971) is a Norwegian children's writer, schoolteacher and local politician. She won the Brage Prize in 2007 and 2012.

Career Born in Kongsberg Municipality on 2 December 1971, Sunne resides in Dokka. She was awarded the Brage Prize 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 in 1995, and spent the next eleven years as a lower secondary school teacher. She was also a screenwriter for Hotel Cæsar between 2003 and 2005. Becoming involved in politics for the Labour Party, she was elected to the municipal council for Nordre Land Municipality and served as deputy mayor from 2019.