Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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a Norwegian writer. The first Norwegian Nobel laureate, he was a prolific polemicist and extremely influential in Norwegian public life and Scandinavian cultural debate
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Born
8 December 1832 Kvikne, Norway
Died
26 April 1910 (aged 77) Paris, France
Nationality
Norwegian
Occupation
Poet, novelist, playwright, lyricist
adultbasic
Norway
Children
Bjørn Bjørnson, Bergljot Ibsen, Erling Bjørnson
era
1800+
Notable awards
Nobel Prize in Literature 1903
Relatives
Peder Bjørnson (father), Elise Nordraak (mother), Maria Björnson (great-granddaughter)
Spouse
Karoline Reimers