Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson ( , ; 8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received 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". The first Norwegian Nobel laureate, he was a prolific polemicist and extremely influential in Norwegian public life and Scandinavian cultural debate. Bjørnson is considered to be one of the
four great Norwegian writers, alongside
Ibsen,
Lie, and
Kielland. He is also celebrated for his lyrics to the Norwegian national anthem, "
Ja, vi elsker dette landet". The composer
Fredrikke Waaler based a composition for voice and piano () on a text by Bjørnson, as did
Anna Teichmüller ().
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