THE NOBEL PRIZE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10453, 19 October 1911, Page 4

THE NOBEL PRIZE.

It •was announced a few days back that Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian author, had ibeen awarded the Nobel prize for literature. It may not be generally known that each of the Nobel prizes, which were founded (by Br Alfred Nobel> the Swedish chemist, the inventor of dynamite, is worth about £BOvX). The one in question is, by the terms -of the foundation, to be awarded to "the most distinguished work of idealistic tendency in the field of literature'' during the preceding year. The other recipients of the prize for literature have included Mommsen, the great German historian, BjoiMson, the Norwegian novelist, Sienkie.v'cz, the Polish/ novelist, Mistral, the French poet, Carducci, the Italian poet, and Rudyard Kipling. M. ftia« terlinck is a Belgian, and was born in 1862. He became a literary force in Paris in 1890, \yihen Octave Mirbeau eulogised his play, "The Princess Maleine," and -since then his fame has steadily increased unvl it is now world-wide. M. anarried Mdlle. Georgette Loblanc, a wellnknown actress, and lives vn the ibeautiful old Abbey of St. "A'anJrille, in Normand"