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Maurice Maeterlinck

1862 - 1949

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Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "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". The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Maeterlinck has received more than 548,632 page views. His biography is available in 87 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Maurice Maeterlinck is the 90th most popular writer (up from 99th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Writer.

Maurice Maeterlinck is most famous for his play "The Blue Bird" which was written in 1908. The play is about two children, Tyltyl and Mytyl, who go on a quest to find the blue bird of happiness.

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  • 550k

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  • 77.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 87

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 17.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Maurice Maeterlinck ranks 90 out of 5,755. Before him are Miyamoto Musashi, Milan Kundera, Heinrich Heine, Selma Lagerlöf, Virginia Woolf, and Maxim Gorky. After him are Lewis Carroll, Jean de La Fontaine, Knut Hamsun, George Bernard Shaw, George Sand, and Rainer Maria Rilke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Maurice Maeterlinck ranks 3. Before him are Gustav Klimt and Claude Debussy. After him are David Hilbert, Philipp Lenard, Arthur Schnitzler, Gerhart Hauptmann, O. Henry, William Henry Bragg, Allvar Gullstrand, Aristide Briand, and Victoria of Baden. Among people deceased in 1949, Maurice Maeterlinck ranks 1. After him are Richard Strauss, Sigrid Undset, George Gurdjieff, Georgi Dimitrov, Edward Thorndike, Margaret Mitchell, Hassan al-Banna, Charles Ponzi, James Ensor, Louis II, Prince of Monaco, and Friedrich Bergius.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Maurice Maeterlinck ranks 9 out of 1,019. Before him are Clovis I (466), Charles Martel (688), Audrey Hepburn (1929), Jan van Eyck (1395), Andreas Vesalius (1514), and René Magritte (1898). After him are Gerardus Mercator (1512), Leopold II of Belgium (1835), Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908), Philip I of Castile (1478), Anthony van Dyck (1599), and Orlande de Lassus (1534).

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Among WRITERS In Belgium

Among writers born in Belgium, Maurice Maeterlinck ranks 1. After him are Georges Simenon (1903), Marguerite Yourcenar (1903), Julio Cortázar (1914), Émile Verhaeren (1855), Marguerite Porete (1250), Pierre Louÿs (1870), Henri Michaux (1899), Laura Marx (1845), Victor Serge (1890), Georges Rodenbach (1855), and Hugo Claus (1929).

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