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- NAME: Henrik Ibsen
- OCCUPATION: Playwright
- BIRTH DATE: March 20, 1828
- DEATH DATE: May 23, 1906
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Skien, Norway
- PLACE OF DEATH: Kristianai [now Oslo], Norway
- Full Name: Henrik Johan Ibsen
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Exiled Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler, the latter of which featured one of theater's most notorious characters.
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Ibsen's works have held up over the years because he tapped into universal themes and explored the human condition in a way unlike any of those before him. Author James Joyce once wrote that Ibsen "has provoked more discussion and criticism that of any other living man." To this day, his plays continue to challenge his audiences.
Personal Life
Unlike many other writers and poets, Ibsen had a long and seemingly happy marriage to Suzannah Daae Thoresen. The couple wed in 1858 and welcomed their only child, son Sigurd, the following year. Ibsen also had a son from an earlier relationship. He had fathered a child with a maid in 1846 while working as an apprentice. While he provided some financial support, Ibsen never met the boy.
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