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| | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson |
 | | Bjørnson was one of the original members of the Nobel Committee, and was re-elected in 1900. |
| | Bjørnson's strong and sometimes rather narrow patriotism did not blind him to what was considered the fatal folly of such a proposal, and his lectures and pamphlets against the målstræv in its extreme form were very effective. |
| | Bjørnson was anxious "to create a new saga in the light of the peasant," as he put it, and he thought this should be done, not merely in prose fiction, but in national dramas or folke-stykker. |
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