Book Description

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, the first Norwegian Nobel laureate, presents 'Three Dramas' in this collection of plays, featuring 'The Editor', 'The Bankrupt', and 'The King'. The second play tells a tragicomedy of money, and a plea for honesty that ends up producing a stirring and entertaining play. Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1903 for his versatile and noble poetry. He was a prolific polemicist and highly influential in Norwegian public life and Scandinavian cultural debate.