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In 1903, Maeterlinck received the Triennial Prize for Dramatic Literature from the Belgian government. [13] During this period, and up until the Great War of 1914-1918, he was widely looked up to, throughout Europe, as a great sage, and the embodiment of the higher thought of the time.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1911 was awarded to Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck "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 ...
Aug 25, 2024 · Accessed 22 October 2024. Maurice Maeterlinck was a Belgian Symbolist poet, playwright, and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911 for his outstanding works of the Symbolist theatre. He wrote in French and looked mainly to French literary movements for inspiration. Maeterlinck studied law at the University.
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Maeterlinck, an avid reader of Arthur Schopenhauer, considered man powerless against the forces of fate. He believed that any actor, due to the hindrance of physical mannerisms and expressions, would inadequately portray the symbolic figures of his plays. He concluded that marionettes were an excellent alternative. Guided by strings operated by a p...
Pelléas et Mélisande inspired four major musical compositions at the turn of the twentieth century, an opera by Claude Debussy, (L 88, Paris, 1902), incidental music to the play composed by Jean Sibelius (opus 46, 1905), an orchestral suite by Gabriel Fauré (opus 80, 1898), and a symphonic poem by Arnold Schoenberg(opus 5, 1902/1903). Other musical...
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1911. Born: 29 August 1862, Ghent, Belgium. Died: 6 May 1949, Nice, France. Residence at the time of the award: Belgium. Prize motivation: “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 ...
Maeterlinck achieved several honours having in 1903 been awarded the Triennial Prize for Dramatic Literature from the Belgian government and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911. The French Academy awarded him, in 1948, the Medal for the French Language, and he became president of Pen International from 1947. He died of a heart attack in Nice.
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The 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) "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 ...
