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1911 : Maurice Maeterlinck |
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"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" Born | : | August 29, 1862 | Place of birth | : | Ghent, Belgium | Died | : | May 6, 1949 | Place of death | : | Nice, France | Occupation | : | Playwright, Poet , Essayist | Nationality | : | Belgian | Notable award(s) | : | Nobel Prize in Literature 1911 |
Biography: Born in Ghent, Maurice Maeterlinck is the eldest of three children, Flemish, bourgeois, Catholic, conservative and French. After studying in the Jesuit college of Sainte-Barbe (Sint-Barbara) from Ghent, Maeterlinck published, 1885, inspired poems in The Young parnassienne Belgium. He moved to Paris where he met several writers who will influence, including Stéphane Mallarmé and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. The latter he discovered the riches of German idealism (Hegel, Schopenhauer). At the same time, Maeterlinck Ruysbroeck discovers the Admirable, a Flemish mystic of the fourteenth century which he translated writings (noces ornament of spiritual). He turns to the wealth of intuitive Germanic world away from the French rationalism. In this spirit, he devoted himself to Novalis and comes into contact with the romanticism of Jena (Germany, 1787-1831, around August and Friedrich Schlegel and review the Athenäum), the forerunner in line with the symbolism. The Maeterlinck works published between 1889 and 1896 are imbued with the Germanic influence. |
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"primarily in recognition of his fruitful, varied and outstanding production in the realm of dramatic art" Born | : | November 15, 1862 | Place of birth | : | Obersalzbrunn, Then Germany, Now Poland | Died | : | June 6, 1946 | Place of death | : | Agnetendorf, Poland | Occupation | : | Dramatist | Nationality | : | German | Notable award(s) | : | Nobel Prize in Literature 1912 |
Biography: Since the school in his hometown came to Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) and then was sent to learn agriculture to the farm of his uncle Jauer. As did not like this kind of life, soon returned to Breslau tried to become a sculptor, from where he went to Dresden. From there he went to study c and natural sciences at the University of Jena.
He spent most of the years 1883 and 1884 in Italy. In May 1885 Hauptmann married and settled in Erkner, a suburb of Berlin, decanters finally in the literature in which soon achieved a reputation as one of the leading representatives of modern drama. |
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1913 : Rabindranath Tagore |
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"as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings" Born | : | January 29, 1866 | Place of birth | : | Clamecy, Nièvre | Died | : | December 30, 1944 | Place of death | : | Vézelay | Occupation | : | Novelist | Nationality | : | French | Notable award(s) | : | Nobel Prize in Literature 1915 |
Biography: Born in Clamecy, Nièvre, France, within a family of notaries, though their ancestors had been farmers as both remarkable people. Writing in his introspective interior Voyage (1942), was himself as a representative of the "ancient species". These ancestors would participate in the truculent tone of the story and uploaded Breugnon Colas (1919).
Accepted into the Ecole normale supérieure in 1886, first studied philosophy, but his independendia spirit led him to abandon it in order not to bow to their dominant ideology. He graduated in History in 1889 and spent two years in Rome, where his encounter with Malwa von Meysenburg - who was a friend of Nietzsche and Wagner - and his discovery of Italian masterpieces were instrumental in the development of his thought. When he returned to France in 1895, received his PhD with his thesis "The origins of the modern operatic theater" and his doctoral dissertation "A History of Opera in Europe before Lully and Scarlatti." |
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1916 : Verner von Heidenstam |
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"in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature" Born | : | July 6, 1859 | Place of birth | : | Olshammar, Sweden | Died | : | May 20, 1940 | Place of death | : | Övralid, Sweden | Occupation | : | Poet, Novelist | Nationality | : | Swedish | Notable award(s) | : | Nobel Prize in Literature 1916 |
Biography: Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (n. Olshammar, Sweden, July 6 1859 - † Stockholm, May 20, 1940) was a Swedish writer.
His attempt to become an artist led him to study painting at the Academy in Stockholm, which left little time to begin a lengthy trip to Europe, Africa and East. His work Vallfart och vandringsar (Years of Pilgrimage and vagrancy, 1888), a collection of lyric poems that were based on his experiences during his tour in the East, noted his dissent with the beginning of naturalism. |
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