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] 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 works as a lecturer in the Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen.