Ivo de Figueiredo
Ivo de Figueiredo | |
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 De Figueiredo in 2010 | |
| Born | 30 April 1966 |
| 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
[edit]De Figueiredo graduated as cand.philol. from the University of Oslo in 1994.[1]
Career
[edit]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
[edit]De Figueiredo hails from Langesund, Norway.[1] He is of Goan descent.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
