Possible Clues:

• Linesman is blind? Spectacles evidently needed, for starters
• "When We Dead Awaken" was his last play
• Cribs enabling to comprehend foreign author
• Writer of one's biography written up
• Hedda Gabler's creator
• His plays are popular around British Home Counties
• Norwegian novelist
• Created an enemy of the people at home covering mad cow disease
• Nordic poet
• Playwright's digestive problem requiring nurse