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Maurice Maeterlinck
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Also Known As Maurice Polydore-Marie-Bernard Maeterlinck • Comte 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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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, c. 1915.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
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Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Harold Pinter
British dramatist
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott
West Indian poet
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Lagerkvist
Pär Lagerkvist
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Nelly Sachs.
Nelly Sachs
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Paul Willems
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Suzanne Lilar
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Herman Teirlinck
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Henry Bauchau
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Jean Louvet
Belgian dramatist

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