Biography
Carlos Wiggen was born and raised in Norway. He studied musicology, sociology, and philosophy, focusing his thesis on the Frankfurt philosophers Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno (1975). He has published five novels, two PhD dissertations—"Barbary and Civilization" and "The Question of the Holy Grail"—and a play titled "A Fool for New Eternities," inspired by the poetry of Friedrich Nietzsche. His novel "The Flying Dutchman" was published in German as "Das Dunkle Schiff" (2003). He also wrote the screenplay for "Dykket," also known as "The Dive" (1989), and the TV documentaries "Ivan Blatny" (1982) and "Bjoern West" (1994).
In addition to Scandinavian languages, he is fluent in English, German, Spanish, and French, reads Dutch and Italian, and has knowledge of classical Greek and Latin.
He holds two PhDs: one in philosophy (Dr. Art, 1999) and another in the History of Ideas (Dr. Philos, 2000). His professional background ranges from practical work as a deep-sea diver on North Sea oil platforms to academic research and teaching at the university level.
During the 1980s, he received extensive training in screenwriting and later developed his own course, "Narratology," which he taught at the International Center for Screen Studies and The State Actors' School in Oslo throughout the 1990s.
In the 1990s, he produced several large-scale avant-garde theater events in Bergen, Norway.
More recently (2005), he ventured into film production, developing his own feature film scripts, "Prospero's Nightmares" and "The Tsushima Ghost."
Since 2000, he has been working on the mega-novel "The Wheel of Ixion," a 6,000-page project composed of approximately 100 interconnected short stories, available online through a multiple-choice format.
