Carlos Wiggen

Carlos Wiggen was born and grew up in Norway. He studied musicology, sociology and philosophy, majoring on a thesis discussing the Frankfurt philosophers Walther Benjamin and Theodor Adorno (1975). He has published five novels, two PhD treatises, "Barbary and Civization" and "The Question of the Holy Grail", and one play, "A Fool for new Eternities" based on the poetry of Friedrich Nietzsche. His novel "The Flying Dutchman" was released in German (2003) as "Das Dunkle Schiff". He also wrote the script of "Dykket" AKA "The Dive" (1989) and the TV documentaries "Ivan Blatny" (1982) and "Bjoern West" (1994). Apart from Scandinavian languages he speaks English, German, Spanish, French, reads Dutch and Italian, has knowledge of classic Greek and Latin. He holds two PhDs, one in philosophy (Dr. Art 1999) and one in the History of Ideas (Dr. Philos 2000). His professional life experiences are gleaned from the most practical i.e. deep-sea diver on the North Sea oil installations, to the most theoretical i.e. research and teaching at university level. In the 1980s he received extensive tuition in screen writing and later developed his own course, "Narratology" which he ran at the International Center for Screen Studies and The State Actors' School in Oslo, Norway during the 90s. In the 1990s he produced several grand scale avant-Gard theater events in Bergen, Norway. Recently (2005) he moved into movie production, preparing his own feature film scripts "Prospero's Nightmares" and "The Tsushima Ghost". Since 2000 he has also been preparing the Mega-novel "The Wheel of Ixion", a 6000 page work broken into about 100 interrelated short-stories available on-line through a multiple choice principle.