WRITER

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

1832 - 1910

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Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson ( BYURN-sən, Norwegian: [ˈbjø̂ːɳstjæːɳə mɑrˈtiːnɪʉ̂s ˈbjø̂ːɳsɔn]; 8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "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". The first Norwegian Nobel laureate, he was a prolific polemicist and extremely influential in Norwegian public life and Scandinavian cultural debate. Bjørnson is considered to be one of the four great Norwegian writers, alongside Ibsen, Lie, and Kielland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson has received more than 1,050,953 page views. His biography is available in 92 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 89 in 2019). Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson is the 129th most popular writer (up from 1,100th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Norway (up from 58th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Norwegian Writer.

Bjørnson is most famous for his novel "Peer Gynt" and his play "A Doll's House."

Memorability Metrics

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 79.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 92

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 22.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson ranks 129 out of 7,302. Before him are Lewis Carroll, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Verlaine, François Villon, and Alexandre Dumas fils. After him are Guillaume Apollinaire, Plautus, Cato the Elder, Hafez, Samuel Beckett, and Günter Grass.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson ranks 5. Before him are Édouard Manet, Gustave Eiffel, Wilhelm Wundt, and Lewis Carroll. After him are Nikolaus Otto, Maximilian I of Mexico, Gustave Doré, Edward Burnett Tylor, Ivan Shishkin, José Echegaray, and William Crookes. Among people deceased in 1910, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson ranks 6. Before him are Leo Tolstoy, Henry Dunant, Mark Twain, Florence Nightingale, and Robert Koch. After him are William James, Henri Rousseau, Edward VII, Nadar, Chulalongkorn, and O. Henry.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson ranks 11 out of 1,039. Before him are Edvard Grieg (1843), Henrik Ibsen (1828), Anni-Frid Lyngstad (1945), Knut Hamsun (1859), Niels Henrik Abel (1802), and Fridtjof Nansen (1861). After him are Harald Fairhair (850), Erik the Red (950), Queen Sonja of Norway (1937), Thor Heyerdahl (1914), Gro Harlem Brundtland (1939), and Jon Fosse (1959).

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Among WRITERS In Norway

Among writers born in Norway, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson ranks 3. Before him are Henrik Ibsen (1828), and Knut Hamsun (1859). After him are Jon Fosse (1959), Jo Nesbø (1960), Ivar Aasen (1813), Ludvig Holberg (1684), Jostein Gaarder (1952), Camilla Collett (1813), Arne Garborg (1851), Alexander Kielland (1849), and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812).

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