Irene Ibsen Bille, was a Norwegian novelist and playwright.

She was born in Kristiania

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

 as a daughter of Sigurd Ibsen

Sigurd Ibsen

Sigurd Ibsen was a Norwegian author and politician. As the only child of Henrik Ibsen and his wife Suzannah Thoresen, he was born to high expectations and struggled all his life to meet these.Sigurd Ibsen was born in Oslo...

. She was a sister of Tancred Ibsen, paternal granddaughter of world-famous writer Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...

 and Suzannah Ibsen

Suzannah Ibsen

Suzannah Ibsen was the wife of playwright and poet Henrik Ibsen.-Biography:Suzannah Daae Thoresen was born in Herøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway. Her parents were Hans Conrad Thoresen and his second wife, Sara Margrethe Daae...

 (née Thoresen), daughter of Bergliot Ibsen

Bergliot Ibsen

Bergliot Ibsen was a Norwegian mezzosoprano singer. She was born in Christiania as a daughter of writer and Nobel laureate Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Karoline Bjørnson , and was married to politician Sigurd Ibsen, son of playwright Henrik Ibsen and Suzannah Ibsen. She was a mother of Tancred Ibsen...

 (née Bjørnson) and maternal granddaughter of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Bjørnson is considered as one of The Four Greats Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, and Alexander Kielland...

 and Karoline Bjørnson

Karoline Bjørnson

Karoline Bjørnson was a Norwegian actress. She is best known as the wife and supporter of poet, playwright, popular speaker and Nobel laureate Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, being model for several of Bjørnson's literary women figures, and helping out with articles and other literary works. Several of...

 (née Reimers).

Irene Ibsen married Danish writer Josias Bille in 1930, and moved to Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. Her first dramatic work, Uten ansikt ('Faceless'), was published here. Kysset ('The Kiss') followed in 1965. In the same year she issued the novel Det leende vindu ('The Laughing Window'). She died in February 1985.