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Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
Full Name of the recipient | Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Literature |
Year of Award | 1911 |
Share in Award | 100.0% |
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Motivation for the Award | 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 |
Place of Birth | Ghent, Belgium BEL |
Date of Birth | 29 August 1862 |
Age at the time of Award | 48 years |
Place of Death | Nice, France FRA |
Date of Death | 6 May 1949 |