About the book: 1961 / The famous, best story of the great Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize winner for 1903 Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832–1910) was written in 1857, when the author she was only 25 years old. It became a new milestone in the history of Norwegian literature. As one of the Russian critics wrote, Björnson’s story had the same significance for Norwegian society as Turgenev’s “Notes of a Hunter” had for Russian society.