Henrik Ibsen

What are his best works? Im considering reading Brand.

his best work is 'al;sdfjrooi /

I dont get the joke. Because he wrote in a language you dont speak?

I don't know anything about him, but I read Peer Gynt earlier this year and thought it was very funny and the ending warmed my heart.

Peer Gynt is his most acclaimed and famous work here in Norway, but it is in verse, so I would imagine a lot of its value is lost in translation.
I haven't read Brand yet, although I intend to, but keep in mind it is in verse as well.
Every work he wrote after Peer Gynt is in prose, so I would go for some of those if I didn't speak Norwegian. Some of the post-Peer Gynt highlights include Et dukkehjem (A Doll's House), En folkefiende (An Enemy of the People), Vildanden (The Wild Duck) and Hedda Gabler.

The kingdom of the dead.

Oh wait

That's Pontopiddan.

Read Henrik Pontopiddans - Kingdom of the dead.

I really enjoyed the wild duck.

Norwegians seem to love Peer Gynt the most (there will be a staging in my city this season by a Norwegian director, I'm p hyped). But the rest of the world loves Dollhouse the most, because it is the prototypical "citizen drama" (don't know if that's the exact English term...) and a message that can easily be seen as feminist. Start with that one, but many of his works seem to be worth reading and are very popular.

>Norwegians seem to love Peer Gynt the most
Becuase it's one if his few works in which he doesn't go full social justice warrior.

>social justice warrior
>in 19th century
I thought that we are supposed to view art in its historical context rather than accepting the death of artist and imposing our subjective and contemporary ideas upon art.