The second volume of my biography, HENRIK IBSEN. MASKEN (Henrik Ibsen. The Mask), was  published in October 2007 - read the reviews of both volumes of my Ibsen biography.

The autumn (2008) I launched a book titled STØV (Dust) on the early nineteenth century poet Henrik Wergeland, a kind of sequel from my previous book SLIPP MEG (Let go), on Henrik Ibsen, from 2006. Both books has been sponsored by Sparebankstiftelsen and given to every seventeen year old in Norway. In addition the books can be purchased from any bookstore in the country. Both STØV and SLIPP MEG are highly experimental in form, mixing text, pictures and design in an original way. Some has found the artistic expression shocking and provoking, especially the photographs.

Both Slipp meg and Støv has received The Department of Culture and Church Affairs´ Award for non-fiction Literature for children and youth 2006 and 2008 (Kirke- og kulturdepartementets pris for barne- og ungdomslitteratur. Fagbokprisen).

After writing STØV I was asked to write a play based on the book. And so I did. Instructed by Bentein Baardson, and starring Morten Røhrt, shifting rapidly between the different characters, the play "STØV. En monologisk mangetale" is touring schools all around the country.

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For the time being (spring 2009), I'm writing on a true crime (Køber-saken), while finishing the first year of my non-fiction writers academy at Aschehoug and Universitetsforlaget.  Publishing Houses. Coming autum I'll start up a new project writing a book about modern Norwegian drama.  

The purpose of this website is to present my previous and current work and future plans as a freelance-historian. As a historian, my field has been modern Norwegian history, European Fascism and Second World War. Since 1994, I´ve been engaged in a number of projects which encompasses Norwegian fascism during the interwar-years, biography-writing, the restoration of Jewish property after The Second World War, the Norwegian legal trials after the war, Norwegian volunteers on the eastern front, collective wartime-memory and local history of the city of Fredrikstad. From 2002 I have been working on a new biography on the author Henrik Ibsen, wich has led my professional orientation more and more towards nineteenth century cultural history. In the autum of 2002, I received the Brage-award for my biography Fri mann. Johan Bernhard Hjort. En dannelseshistorie. See http://www.brageprisen.no/tekster/tidligere.shtml (hit "Tidligere vinnere"), or simply read what the jury had to say here)

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E-MAIL ADRESS:

ivod ( @ ) broadpark.no