About Ivo de Figueiredo
Born 1966. Ivo de Figueiredo is a Norwegian historian, literary historian, writer, biographer and author.
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. 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.
In 2023, de Figueiredo published the book , the first volume of a biography of the painter Edvard Munch.
Personal life De Figueiredo hails from Langesund, Norway.
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Who is Ivo de Figueiredo?
Norwegian historian and biographer
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Ivo de Figueiredo was born on 30 April 1966 in Langesund.
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Ivo de Figueiredo is a historian, literary historian, writer, biographer and author.
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Ivo de Figueiredo is Norwegian.
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