The International Ibsen Award is devoted to the work of contemporary artists who take up the spirit of aesthetic renewal and formal innovation embodied by the playwright Henrik Ibsen.
Conferred by the Norwegian Government, The International Ibsen Award is the biggest award for contemporary playwrights whose work has a similarly fundamental, transnational effect, without compromise and with a powerful pioneering spirit. (read more here)

The open nomination process for The International Ibsen Award is postponed to September 1.st 2013
You are welcome to nominate an individual, institution or organisation that you think has brought a new artistic dimension to the world of drama or theater.
Please use the nomination form at our website.

Director at Berliner Festspiele, Dr. Thomas Oberender (to the left), and Chief dramaturg of the Theatre of Nations in Moscow, Roman Dolzhanskiy (to the right), are the two new members of the Committee. The rest of the committee are: (from left: Sir Brian McMaster, Christiane Schneider, Therese Bjørneboe, Hanne Tømta and Chairman Per Boye-Hansen.