biography
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Maeterlinck, Maurice (Polydore Marie Bernard)
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also known as comte (Count) Maeterlinck
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pronunciation:
[mahterlingk]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1862–1949)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Ghent, NW Belgium. He studied law at Ghent University, became a disciple of the Symbolist movement, and in 1889 produced his first volume of poetry, Les Serres chaudes (Hot House Blooms). His masterpiece was the prose-play Pelléas et Mélisande (1892), on which Debussy based his opera. He wrote many other plays, which have been widely translated, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911. |
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