Maurice Maeterlinck
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1911.
Born: 29, Aug, 1862, Ghent, Belgium
Died: 6, May, 1949, Nice, France
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 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"
Prize share: 1/1