Background
Heggelund was born in Hamar. He grew up in Tønsberg and later Bergen.
Heggelund was born in Hamar. He grew up in Tønsberg and later Bergen.
Heggelund was a lecturer and researcher at the University of Oslo from 1970 to 1992. As a researcher he has worked on the baroque and pre romantic epoques, as well as on modernist literature. He has also edited works by Petter Dass, Ludvig Holberg and Johan Herman Wessel.
He wrote the chapter covering the period from 1500 to 1814 in the six-volume work Norsk Litterturhistorie from 1974.
From 1992 to 2004 Heggelund served as a literary manager at the publishing house Aschehoug.