Nobel Prize in Literature 1903

Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1903 was awarded to Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson "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"

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