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Maurice Maeterlinck
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Definition:[1862 - 1949]a liberal Belgian author who was most famous for his early plays featuring female characters who controlled their own destiny.For some reason he plagiarized a book o' bugs in 1926.
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In 1903, Maeterlinck received the Triennial Prize for Dramatic Literature from the Belgian government. During this period, and down to the Great War, he was widely looked up to, throughout Europe, as a great sage, and the embodiment of the higher thought of the time.
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Professor V. E. d'Assonville wrote about Maeterlinck as "the Nobel Prize winner who had never seen a termite in his whole life and had never put a foot on the soil of Africa, least of all in the Waterberg"
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I am a play-wright. I have been called the American Maeterlinck. Maeterlinck-Schmetterling*, says I.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
*Schmetterling is German for butterfly, perhaps alluding to Maeterlinck's (plagiarized) book regarding entomology which Nabokov, himself an entomologist, likely read or at least knew about.
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