Hans Heiberg (28 January 1904 – 6 December 1978) was a Norwegian journalist, literary critic, theatre critic, essayist, novelist, playwright, translator and theatre director. He was the cousin of Aimée Sommerfelt and the nephew of Norwegian physicist Henrik Dedichen. During the late phase of the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he was arrested in Lillehammer and sent to Grini concentration camp. He arrived at Grini on 4 May 1945, days before Germany's capitulation and the liberation of the camp. After the war, Heiberg was a literary critic and theatre critic for Verdens Gang from 1945 to 1952. He was employed by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation as theatre director for Radioteatret from 1952 to 1973. He was chairman of the Norwegian Authors' Union from 1946 to 1965. A prolific translator, Heiberg translated over 200 novels and plays into Norwegian. Among his literary works are the satirical novels "Gutten i jacket" (1931) and "Ta den ring og la den vandre –" (1934). He wrote the two plays "Broen" (1945) and "Minnefesten" (1946). A selection of his literary criticism was issued in "Peilinger" (1950). He wrote a biography on Henrik Ibsen in 1967, and a biography on Henrik Wergeland in 1972. He received the Arts Council Norway Honorary Award in 1973, and became Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1973. He died in 1978 at the age of 74. In 1979, he posthumously received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award.