''Geografi og Kærlighed'' (Geography and Love) is a play by the Norwegian playwright

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson ( , ; 8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished ...

. It was written in 1885 and it premiered at the

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on October 21, 1885. Bjørnson later reworked the last act of the play in the winter of 1893–1894. The main characters in the play are Professor Tygesen and his wife Karen. The play appeared in an English translation by Edwin Björkman titled ''Love and Geography'' in 1914. The play has been performed a number of times in Norway's leading theaters, and it was filmed by

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's Television Theater department in 1975.

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