Norway is known for having many great things: skiing, coffee, Fjords, Elk,vikings, WAFFLES (MMMM WAFLES) and most significantly famous writers like Henrik Idsen. He was born in Skien, Norway on March 20, 1828. Ibsen is known for writing poems and playwrights, and directing plays. This man is considered "the father" of modern theatre and also the greatest playwright writer in history.
When Idsen was born, his family went through difficult financial problems and this caused his father to be depressed. As a teenager, Idsen had to leave school. His family moved and he had to take a job as an apprentice in a pharmacy. During this time of his life, he started to write plays. Idsen then became a father of a child with a servant at the age of 18, so he had to be responsible financially for a child that he never met. In 1850 Idsen moved again(this time to Olson) because he wanted to study at a University. He tried many times to be accepted to the university, but he failed. So, he stopped thinking about university and decided to write plays such as, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Dolls house(AYYYY) and many other plays.
In a Bergen theatre (located in Norway), Idsen worked as a producer, director and writer of about 145 plays. Idsen married a women by the name of Suzzanah Thorsen, and he had a son named Sigurd He left the wife because of financial problems. Idsen died on may 23, 1906 in his home in Oslo, Norway. While his childhood and teenage years were difficult, at the end he did was he was best at and what he enjoyed the most: writing plays.
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