Ivo de Figueiredo (b. 1966) is a historian, author and critic. He is considered one of Norway’s most prominent non-fiction writers and has contributed to the recognition of the literary value and importance of non-fiction. de Figueiredo has written the biography of Henrik Ibsen, Henrik Ibsen. The Man and the Mask, one of the world’s most performed playwrights. His two-volume biography The Storm – A Biography of Edvard Munch is a definitive guide to the famous painter Munch. Ivo de Figueiredo’s biographical method combines an immersion in the main character’s thoughts and feelings that borders on fiction with a broad portrait of a historical era. In the biographies, he uses a sense of compositional technique, an eye for descriptive detail, and an ability to place both Munch’s and Ibsen’s artistic works in a broader literary and intellectual-historical context. He writes with both engagement and accessibility. The biographies of Ibsen and Munch are today considered the most complete and well researched biographies on the world famous artists.