Maeterlinck,Count Maurice

Maeterlinck,Count Maurice
Mae·ter·linck (māʹtər-lĭngk', mĕtʹər-, mä-tĕr-lăɴʹ), Count Maurice. 1862-1949.
Belgian writer of poetry, a wide variety of essays, and symbolic dramas, including Pelléas et Mélisande (1892). He won the 1911 Nobel Prize for literature.

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