Noun
realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906)
Source: WordNetAmong the world-famous artists who lived here during this period were Henrik Ibsen and Knut Hamsun (the latter was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature). Source: Internet
Famous playwrights such as Henrik Ibsen or Anton Chekhov have had their works adapted many times. Source: Internet
Founded in 1850, it had Henrik Ibsen as one of its first in-house play-writes and art directors. Source: Internet
He also built on the realist tradition of Henrik Ibsen in his exploration of the individual’s conflict with society but also borrowed Symbolist and expressionist techniques from Bertolt Brecht and others. Source: Internet
He disliked the expository character backgrounds that characterise the work of Henrik Ibsen and rejected the convention of a dramatic " slice of life " because he felt that the resulting plays were mundane and uninteresting. Source: Internet
In 1900 his laudatory review of Henrik Ibsen 's When We Dead Awaken was published in Fortnightly Review ; it was his first publication and, after learning basic Norwegian to send a fan letter to Ibsen, he received a letter of thanks from the dramatist. Source: Internet