Name: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.
Real Name: Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Country: Norway.
Nationality: Norwegian.
Date of Birth: December 08,1832.
Died: April 26, 1910.
Education: University of Oslo.
Notable Works: The Bankrupt.
Popularly Known: 19th-century Norwegian literature: the four great ones.
Profession: Writer.
Noble Prize Year: Nobel Prize for Peace in 1903, for 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. He was active in politics and journalism, and he had stints working as a theatre director in Bergen and Oslo. He depicted rural Norwegian peasant life in his early works. Even though he also composed realistic and symbolic tragedies throughout his career, this national romanticism was also present in his poetry. His poem “Ja, vi elsker dette landet” has became the national anthem of Norway.
