- He wrote a biography on Henrik Ibsen in 1967, and a biography on Henrik Wergeland in 1972.
- After the war he was a literary critic and theatre critic for Verdens Gang from 1945 to 1952.
- He received the Arts Council Norway Honorary Award in 1973, and became Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1973.
- In 1979 he posthumously received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award.
- He worked as a foreign correspondent for Dagbladet and Arbeiderbladet, in Great Britain and Ireland in 1929, in Finland in 1930, in Japan and China in 1932, and in Paris from 1938 to 1939.
- He was chairman for Teater- og musikkritikerlaget from 1947 to 1949, De norske teatres forening from 1962 to 1964 and Norsk Teaterunion from 1961 to 1967.
- Heiberg worked as a literary critic and theatre critic for Arbeiderbladet between 1931 and 1940.
- Heiberg finished his secondary education in 1922, and finished his law studies with the cand.jur. degree in 1927.
- Hans Heiberg was one of the post-war most central figures in Norwegian cultural life, as head of the Radio Theater in NRK for 20 years, as a journalist and critic, as an author and translator and as chairman of several important cultural policy organisations.
- He was employed by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation as theatre director for Radioteatret from 1952 to 1973.
- Hans Heiberg was a member of Norges Kunstnerråd from 1946 to 1949 and from 1956 to 1961, and of the Arts Council Norway from 1965 to 1972, and chairman of the Norwegian Authors' Union from 1946 to 1965.
- He wrote the two plays Broen (1945) and Minnefesten (1946).
- Among his literary works are the satirical novels Gutten i jacket (1931) and Ta den ring og la den vandre - (1934).
- A selection of his literary critics was issued in Peilinger (1950).
- One of his translations was the radio play Dickie Dick Dickens, which was elected "All-time radio play" by Norwegian radio listeners in 2001.
- He was a nephew of playwright and theatre director Gunnar Heiberg, physician Inge Heiberg and psychiatrist Henrik Dedichen, and a second cousin of Supreme Court Justice Axel Heiberg, architect Bernt Heiberg and railway director Edvard Heiberg.
- He was chairman of the board for Riksteatret from 1949 to 1968.
- He translated more than two hundred novels and plays into Norwegian language.
- He was a Norwegian journalist, literary critic, theatre critic, essayist, novelist, playwright, translator and theatre director.
- During the late phase of the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was arrested in Lillehammer and sent to Grini concentration camp. He arrived at Grini on 4 May 1945, only days before Germany's capitulation and the liberation of the camp.
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