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Maurice Maeterlinck

1862 - 1949

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Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (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 the group La Jeune Belgique, and his plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Maeterlinck is the 90th most popular writer (up from 108th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 10th in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Writer.

Maurice Maeterlinck is most famous for his play "The Blue Bird" which was written in 1908. The play is about two children, Tyltyl and Mytyl, who go on a quest to find the blue bird of happiness.

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Among writers, Maurice Maeterlinck ranks 90 out of 7,302. Before him are Abu Nuwas, Kālidāsa, Maxim Gorky, Du Fu, Pablo Neruda, and George Bernard Shaw. After him are Kurt Vonnegut, Giorgio Vasari, Milan Kundera, Heinrich Heine, Louisa May Alcott, and Erich Maria Remarque.

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Among people born in 1862, Maurice Maeterlinck ranks 3. Before him are Gustav Klimt, and Claude Debussy. After him are David Hilbert, Philipp Lenard, Gerhart Hauptmann, Allvar Gullstrand, William Henry Bragg, Hilma af Klint, O. Henry, Aristide Briand, and Arthur Schnitzler. Among people deceased in 1949, Maurice Maeterlinck ranks 1. After him are Richard Strauss, Sigrid Undset, George Gurdjieff, Georgi Dimitrov, Edward Thorndike, Leonard Bloomfield, Kim Jong-suk, Margaret Mitchell, Friedrich Bergius, Hassan al-Banna, and James Ensor.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Maurice Maeterlinck ranks 7 out of 1,190. Before him are Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500), Pepin the Short (715), Audrey Hepburn (1929), Jan van Eyck (1395), Clovis I (466), and Charles Martel (688). After him are Ursula von der Leyen (1958), Philip I of Castile (1478), John of Gaunt (1340), Andreas Vesalius (1514), Anthony van Dyck (1599), and Gerardus Mercator (1512).

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Among WRITERS In Belgium

Among writers born in Belgium, Maurice Maeterlinck ranks 1. After him are Georges Simenon (1903), Julio Cortázar (1914), Marguerite Yourcenar (1903), Émile Verhaeren (1855), Pierre Louÿs (1870), Marguerite Porete (1250), Henri Michaux (1899), Laura Marx (1845), John of Ruusbroec (1293), Georges Rodenbach (1855), and Victor Serge (1890).

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