Nobel laureate: Maurice Maeterlinck
Born: 1862-08-29, Ghent, Belgium
Died: 1949-05-06, Nice, France
Gender: male
Prizes:
year: 1911
category: literature
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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"