Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson — Nobel Prize in Literature 1903

“as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit”

The Swedish Academy awarded Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit.