Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (August 29, 1862 – May 6, 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, is a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who is Flemish but writes in French.

He is 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.

His plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement.

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