Maurice Maeterlinck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Maurice Maeterlinck

Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist

Date of Birth: 29-Aug-1862

Place of Birth: Ghent, Belgium

Date of Death: 06-May-1949

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, translator, author, philosopher, librettist, essayist

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Maurice Maeterlinck

  • Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, 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.
  • His plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement.

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