Maurice Maeterlinck, a frankophone Belgian playwright and poet from Ghent (1862 - 1949), is famous for his Symbolist plays "The Blue Bird", "Monna Vanna" and "Pelléas and Mélisande". "The Miracle of Saint Anthony" (1903) is one of his satirical masterpieces. Maeterlinck won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1911.