Bj?nson Festival

The Bj?nson Festival of international literature is held in Molde and Nesset every August since 1992, and is named in honour of the local Nobel Prize in Literature winner Bj?nstjerne Bj?nson.

In 1997 the festival's president of honour Knut ?eg?d 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, Vigd? Finnbogad?tir, Seamus Heaney, and Thor Heyerdahl, amongst others.