Bjørnson Festival
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The Bjørnson Festival of international literature is held in Molde and Nesset, Norway, every August since 1992, and is named in honour of the Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (who was raised in the area).
In 1997 the founder of the festival and president (now honorary president), the poet Knut Ødegård, opened The Grove of Peace at the King's Birch in Molde.
Visiting authors (and tree-planters at the grove) include Wole Soyinka, Yasar Kemal, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Seamus Heaney, Amos Oz, Izzat al-Ghazzawi, Bei Dao, Hans Blix and Thor Heyerdahl.
