Jørgen Haugan

Jørgen Haugan (born 1941) in Trondheim is a Norwegian author and lecturer. He was written a number of books, principally biographies of noted Scandinavian writers.^[1]

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Haugan earned a doctorate in philosophy in 1977 from the University of Copenhagen with a thesis on Henrik Ibsen.^[2]

Haugan received the Georg Brandes award for his biography of Martin Andersen Nexø in 1999. Haugan completed his biography of Knut Hamsun in 2004. Haugan works as a lecturer in the Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. He had previously worked at the University of Trondheim.^{[3] [4]}