Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck , ,
in Belgium, in France.}} (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as
Count/
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. He was a leading member of
La Jeune Belgique group, and his plays form an important part of the
Symbolist movement. In later life, Maeterlinck faced credible accusations of
plagiarism.
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