Maurice Maeterlinck  

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Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian Symbolist poet, playwright, and essayist, known as the foremost Symbolist playwright. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. The city of Ghent will be celebrating his Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011 with a Maeterlinck year.

List of works

• The Blind
• The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts
• The Buried Temple
• The Life of the Bee
• Mehilaisten elama (Finnish)
• Our Friend the Dog
• Pelléas and Mélisande
• La sagesse et la destinee (French)
• The Unknown Guest
• Wisdom and Destiny
• The Wrack of the Storm
• The Life of the Ant
• Sister Beatrice and Ardiane, and Barbu Bleue
• Before the Great Silence
• The Magic of the Stars
• The Life of the White Ant