Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen was born in 1828 in Skien, a small port town in southeastern Norway, into a family that fell from prosperity to poverty during his childhood. He worked as a pharmacist's apprentice before turning to theater, serving as a stage director and playwright at theaters in Bergen and Christiania (now Oslo) with limited success. Financial struggle and artistic frustration drove him into a self-imposed exile from Norway in 1864 that lasted twenty-seven years, during which he lived in Italy and Germany and produced his greatest works. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by A Doll's House.