Georg Johannesen (February 22, 1931 – December 24, 2005) was a Norwegian author and professor of rhetoric. He was born in Bergen. His dissertation was on the spring motif in the poetry of Olaf Bull. He died while on vacation in Egypt.
All his writing shows an interest in the power language has to enshroud true meaning. The language we use, forces upon us a sentimentality which clouds over real political insight and action, and Johannesen's most important task is to unveil language. Both his plays and his poems bear obvious inspiration from Bertolt Brecht. His essays show a certain fondness for paradox.