Ivo de Figueiredo | |
Birth Date: | 30 April 1966 |
Nationality: | Norwegian |
Alma Mater: | University of Oslo |
Occupation: | Historian, biographer and literary critic |
Awards: | Brage Prize (2002) |
Ivo de Figueiredo (born 30 April 1966) is a Norwegian historian, biographer and literary critic.
Figueiredo was awarded the Brage Prize in 2002, for a biography of Johan Bernhard Hjort. He has written several books on Henrik Ibsen and his works.[1]
In 2023 he published the book Norwegian: Stormen I, the first volume of a biography of the painter Edvard Munch.[2] [3]
Figueiredo hails from Langesund, and graduated as cand.philol. from the University of Oslo in 1994.[1]