Considered one of Norway's "Four Great" writers, Bj�rnson was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1903 and wrote the words to Norway's national anthem.
Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate "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." Bjørnson is the author of the lyrics to the Norwegian National Anthem, "Ja, vi elsker dette landet".