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He has a great talent, a clear conscience, a beautiful art.
—On Björnson
W. D. Howells
Björnstjerne Björnson
 
1832–1910, Norwegian writer and political leader, one of the major figures of Norwegian literature. He was an influential journalist, who sought to revive Norwegian as a literary language and championed the rights of the oppressed.… Bjørnson received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.)
 
Pronunciation:  byûrn´sn from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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