Irene Ibsen Bille


Irene Ibsen Bille was a Norwegian novelist and playwright.
She was born in Kristiania as a daughter of Prime Minister Sigurd Ibsen. She was a sister of Tancred Ibsen, paternal granddaughter of world-famous writer Henrik Ibsen and Suzannah Ibsen, daughter of Bergliot Ibsen and maternal granddaughter of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Karoline Bjørnson.
Irene Ibsen married Danish writer Steen Andersen Josias Christopher Bille, a member of the ancient noble Bille family, in 1930, and moved to Denmark. Her first dramatic work, Uten ansikt, was published here. Kysset followed in 1965. In the same year she issued the novel Det leende vindu. She died in February 1985.

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Ibsen Bille had three children from two marriages: Suzanna, and Anders and Joen. Roughly a third of Henrik Ibsen's living descendants come from Irene's grandchildren and great-grandchildren.