Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck
BornMaurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck
(1862-08-29)29 August 1862
Ghent, Belgium
Died6 May 1949(1949-05-06) (aged 86)
Nice, France
OccupationPlaywright · Poet · Essayist
LanguageFrench
NationalityBelgian
Alma materUniversity of Ghent
Literary movementSymbolism
Notable worksIntruder (1890)
The Blind (1890)
Pelléas et Mélisande (1893)
Interior (1895)
The Blue Bird (1908)
Notable awardsNobel Prize in Literature
1911
Triennial Prize for Dramatic Literature
1903
SpouseRenée Dahon
PartnerGeorgette Leblanc
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Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck[1][a] (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932,[6] was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 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". The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. He was a leading member of La Jeune Belgique group,[7] and his plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement. In later life, Maeterlinck faced credible accusations of plagiarism.

  1. ^ Spelled Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck on the official Nobel Prize page.
  2. ^ "Maeterlinck, Count Maurice". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 20 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Maeterlinck". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Maeterlinck". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  5. ^ Jean-Marie Pierret (1994). Phonétique historique du français et notions de phonétique générale (in French). Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789068316087.
  6. ^ "Maeterlinck, Maurice". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  7. ^ Michael Shaw (2019), The Fin-de-Siècle Scottish Revival: Romance, Decadence and Celtic Identity, Edinburgh University Press, p. 98


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