Hans Heiberg
Hans Heiberg | |
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Born | Kristiania, Norway | 28 January 1904
Died | 6 December 1978 | (aged 74)
Nationality | Norwegian |
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Parent | Fritt Ord Honorary Award (1979; posthumously) |
Hans Heiberg (28 January 1904 – 6 December 1978) was a Norwegian journalist, literary critic, theatre critic, essayist, novelist, playwright, translator and theatre director.
Early and personal life
Heiberg was born in Kristiania as son of city manager Jacob Vilhelm Rode Heiberg (1860–1946) and Christiane Jeanette Aimée Dedichen. He was married to Alette Elisabeth Wiland from 1929 to her death in 1941, and to nurse Sigrid Berner Høy from 1942. He was a nephew of playwright and theatre director Gunnar Heiberg, physician Inge Heiberg and psychiatrist Henrik Dedichen,[1] and a second cousin of Supreme Court Justice Axel Heiberg, architect Bernt Heiberg and railway director Edvard Heiberg.[2]
Career
Heiberg
During the late phase of the
After the war he was a literary critic and theatre critic for
He translated more than two hundred novels and plays into Norwegian language.[1] One of his translations was the radio play Dickie Dick Dickens, which was elected "All-time radio play" by Norwegian radio listeners in 2001.[5] Among his literary works are the satirical novels Gutten i jacket (1931) and Ta den ring og la den vandre – (1934). He wrote the two plays Broen (1945) and Minnefesten (1946). A selection of his literary critics was issued in Peilinger (1950). He wrote a biography on
References
- ^ a b c d e Berg, Thoralf. "Hans Heiberg". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 13 April 2009.
- Store norske leksikon(in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 23 April 2009.
- ^ Store norske leksikon(in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. 2007. Retrieved 13 April 2009.
- ISBN 82-15-00288-9.
- Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. 2001. Archived from the originalon 21 October 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
- ^ "Priser – Fritt Ords Honnør" (in Norwegian). Fritt Ord. Retrieved 22 May 2010.