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Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck

Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1911

Belgian writer in French. Lawyer. Many-sided literary activities. Dramatic works distinguished by a wealth of imagination. Poetic fancy. Reveals deep inspiration. Appeals to readers’ own feelings, stimulates their imaginations.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

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Maurice Maeterlinck, portrait from Le Livre des masques (vol. II, 1898) by Remy de Gourmont (1858-1916). 1898. Author: Fèlix Vallotton. Source: Wikimedia Commons

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Maurice Maeterlinck, 1901. Author: Théo van Rysselberg. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Maurice Maeterlinck, far right. A Reading by Emile Verhaeren (1901). Author: Theo van Rysselberghe (1862-1926). Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Maurice Maeterlinck. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Maurice Maeterlinck, portrait before 1905. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Maurice Maeterlinck’s ‘The Blue Bird’. Sofya Khalyutina (Tyltyl), left & Alisa Coonen (Mytyl). Moscow Art Theatre (1908). Author: Karl Fischer. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Maurice Maeterlinck’s ‘The Blue Bird’. Alisa Coonen (Mytyl), left & Sofya Khalyutina (Tyltyl). Moscow Art Theatre (1908). Author: Karl Fischer. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Maurice Maeterlinck and his wife, no later than 1912. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Maurice Maeterlinck, 1912. Author: Les Prix Nobel, Nobel Foundation. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Maurice Maeterlinck early in his career, before 1923. Author: Tucker Collection. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Maurice Maeterlinck. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Maurice Maeterlinck at the Société des gens de lettres, 1925. Author: Agence de presse Meurisse. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Maurice Maeterlinck. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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In Maurice Maeterlinck’s play ‘Monna Vanna’ (1902), Actress Georgette Leblanc. Date: 9 January 2009. Author: Merker Berlin. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Maurice Maeterlinck’s play Monna Vanna. Playbill Freie Volksbühne Berlin on 4 December 1910. Author: Merker Berlin. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Title page of the first German edition of Monna Vanna by Maurice Maeterlinck (1903). Author: Merker Berlin. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Maurice Maeterlinck Gedenkplaat in Gent. 5 July 2014. Author: Paul Drieghe. Source: Wikimedia Commons.