Ivo de Figueiredo
Ivo de Figueiredo | |
|---|---|
 De Figueiredo in 2010 | |
| Born | 30 April 1966 |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Alma mater | University of Oslo (cand.philol.) |
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| Awards | Brage Prize (2002) |
Ivo de Figueiredo (born 30 April 1966) is a Norwegian historian, biographer and literary critic. He is the recipient of the Brage Prize in 2002 for his biography on Johan Hjort.
Education
De Figueiredo graduated as cand.philol. from the University of Oslo in 1994.[1]
Career
De Figueiredo was awarded the Brage Prize in 2002, for a biography of supreme court lawyer Johan Bernhard Hjort. He has written several books on playwright and theatre director Henrik Ibsen and his works.[1] Ibsen scholar Ellen Rees describes de Figueiredo's two-volume biography of the Norwegian playwright as a "groundbreaking" work which spearheaded a "revolution in historical and biographical research into Ibsen's life". The work was published in English translation in one volume under the title Henrik Ibsen: The Man and the Mask in 2019.[2]
In 2023, de Figueiredo published the book Stormen I, the first volume of a biography of the painter Edvard Munch.[3][4]
Personal life
De Figueiredo hails from Langesund, Norway.[1] He is of Goan descent.[5]
References
- ^ a b c "Ivo de Figueiredo". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
- ^ Rees, Ellen (2022). "Tropes Revisited: Evert Sprinchorn's Ibsen's Kingdom: The Man and His Works and Recent Historical Research in Ibsen Studies". Scandinavian Studies. 94 (4): 530. ISSN 2163-8195.
- ^ Hobelstad, Inger Merete (15 October 2023). "Munch visste at han var et geni". nrk.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 24 July 2024.
- ^ Hoem, Knut (16 October 2023). "En dannet barbar fra Norge". nrk.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 24 July 2024.
- ^ Shekhar, Hansda Sowvendra (1 June 2019). "A Norwegian biographer writes movingly of his Goan father, who was largely a stranger to him". Scroll.in. Retrieved 19 February 2025.