Maurice Maeterlinck - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1911
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Maurice Maeterlinck

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1911
in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations
Citizenship
Belgium Belgium
Languages
French
date of birth
8/29/1862
place of birth
Ghent
date of death
5/6/1949
place of death
Nice
Lived
86 years

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member of
  • Academie Royale de Langue et de littérature Françaises
    • end time: 5/6/1949
    • start time: 8/19/1920
  • Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen
  • Académie des gastronomes
position held
  • president
    • start time: 1947
    • end time: 1949
occupation
  • philosopher
  • librettist
  • writer
  • translator
  • playwright
  • essayist
  • poet
  • natural philosopher
  • jurist
notable work
  • The Treasure of the Humble
  • Interior
  • The Blue Bird
  • Pelléas and Mélisande
  • The Death of Tintagiles
  • Princess Maleine
  • Alladine and Palomides
  • Aglavaine et Sélysette
  • Les sept princesses
  • Intruder
  • The Blind
  • Monna Vanna
  • Serres Chaudes
  • Ariane et Barbe-Bleue
educated at
  • Society of Jesus
  • Ghent University
  • Sint-Barbaracollege
employer
  • La Jeune Belgique
field of work
  • philosophy
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