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Also Known As Comte Maeterlinck • Maurice Polydore-Marie-Bernard Maeterlinck
Born August 29, 1862 • Ghent • Belgium
Died May 6, 1949 (aged 86) • Nice • France
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1911)
Notable Works “Pelléas et Mélisande” • “The Blue Bird” • “The Burgomaster of Stilmonde” • “The Life of the Bee”
Movement / Style Symbolism • Young Belgium

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Maurice Maeterlinck, c. 1890.
Blue Bird, The
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Charles Van Lerberghe
Belgian poet
Émile Verhaeren, drawing by Lucien Wolles, c. 1900; in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.
Émile Verhaeren
Belgian poet
William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott
West Indian poet
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Harold Pinter
British dramatist
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Portrait of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore with long wavy hair and a full beard, wearing a simple robe and looking directly at the camera.
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Lagerkvist
Pär Lagerkvist
Swedish author
Nelly Sachs.
Nelly Sachs
German writer
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Paul Willems
Belgian author
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Suzanne Lilar
Belgian author
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Herman Teirlinck
Flemish author
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Henry Bauchau
Belgian author
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Jean Louvet
Belgian dramatist

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