Author

Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen

Born : 20 March 1828, Skien, Norway

Died : 23 May 1906 (aged 78), Norway

Nationality : Norwegian

Genre : Naturalism, Realism

Notable work(s) : Brand (1865), Peer Gynt (1867), Emperor and Galilean (1873), A Doll's House(1879), Ghosts(1881), An Enemy of the People (1882),The Wild Duck (1884), Hedda Gabler (1890) and The Master Builder (1892).

A famous Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet, Henrik Ibsen is often considered as "the father" of modern theater and one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre. Ibsen is often ranked as one of the greatest playwrights in the European literature.
His first published play was “The Vikings at Helgaland” but the play that made his name famous was “Peer Gynt”