Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (December 8, 1832, Kvikne - April 26, 1910, Paris) - Norwegian author, poet, dramatist and editor, 1903 Nobel Laureate in literature, fighter for the rights of oppressed nations. Representative of the Scandinavian realism in its culminating period, he wrote short stories from the rural background, later on novels and burgeois problem dramas. "Flags above the City and Harbour" (1884), "Poems and Songs" (1870), "Beyond Our Power" (1883), "A Gauntlet" (1884), "Mary Queen of Scots" (1906) are some of his significant works. Several of his works have also been published in Slovak ("Peasant Tales", 1971). As editor, he fought for...