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Maurice Maeterlinck

Author · born August 29, 1862 · died 1949

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Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French.

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  1. ~49Received the Nobel Prize in Literature1911

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