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Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, 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, whic…
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culture · Belgian playwright and essayist (1862–1949) · writer · poet · philosopher · essayist · playwright · librettist · translator · jurist · natural philosopher · also Maurice Maeterlinck, Maeterlinck
Born 29 August 1862 · Died 6 May 1949 · Q49747
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MutualArt.com: Maurice Maeterlinck
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2019· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: Maurice Maeterlinck News
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1949· 4 entries
Died 1949-05-06.
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“Não há vidas pequenas; quando a encaramos de perto, toda vida é grande.”
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“Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.”
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“An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.”
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1948· 1 entry
The French Academy awarded him the Medal for the French Language
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1947· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1947–1949).
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1940· 1 entry
Arrived in the United States from Lisbon on the Greek Liner Nea Hellas
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1930· 1 entry
Bought a château in Nice, France, and named it Orlamonde, a name occurring in his work Quinze Chansons
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1926· 1 entry
Maeterlinck published La Vie des Termites (translated into English as The Life of Termites or The Life of White Ants), an entomological book that plagiarised the book The Soul of the (White) Ant, by the Afrikaner poet a
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1925· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1925).
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1918· 1 entry
“I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde, which dealt with the conditions in Belgium during the German Occupation of 1918.”
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1914· 1 entry
Maeterlinck wished to join the French Foreign Legion, but his application was denied due to his age
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1911· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — 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.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1911).
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"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 tal
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1910· 1 entry
Met the 18-year-old actress Renée Dahon during a rehearsal of The Blue Bird
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1906· 1 entry
Maeterlinck and Leblanc moved to a villa in Grasse in the south of France
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1903· 1 entry
Maeterlinck received the Triennial Prize for Dramatic Literature from the Belgian government
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1895· 1 entry
With his parents frowning upon his open relationship with an actress, Maeterlinck and Leblanc moved to the district of Passy in Paris
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1862· 1 entry
Born 1862-08-29.
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