Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend me your ears.

Poet, dramatist, essayist and Nobel Laureate                          

Selected Works:

Drama:

La Princesse Maleine - Princess Maleine - published 1889
L'Intruse - Intruder - published 1890; first performed 1891
Les Aveugles - The Blind - published 1890; first performed1891
Les Sept Princesses - The Seven Princesses - published 1891
Pelléas and Mélisande - published 1892; first performed 1893
Alladine et Palomides - published 1894
Intérieur - Interior - published 1894; first performed 1895
La Mort de Tintagiles - The Death of Tintagiles - published 1894
Aglavaine et Sélysette - first performed December 1896
Ariane et Barbe-bleue Ariane and Bluebeard - first published in German translation, 1899
Soeur Béatrice Sister Beatrice - published 1901
Monna Vanna - first performed May 1902; published the same year
Joyzelle - first performed 20 May 1903; published the same year
Le Miracle de saint Antoine - The Miracle of Saint Antony - first performed in German translation, 1904
L'Oiseau bleu - The Blue Bird - first performed 30 September 1909
Marie-Magdeleine - Mary Magdalene - first performed in German translation, February 1910; staged and published in French, 1913
Le Bourgmestre de Stilmonde - first performed in Buenos Aires, 1918; published 1919
Les Fiançailles - published 1922
Le Malheur passe - published 1925
La Puissance des morts - published 1926
Berniquel - published 1926
Marie-Victoire - published 1927
Judas de Kerioth - published 1929
La Princess Isabelle - published 1935
L'Autre Monde ou le cadran stellaire - The Other World, or The Star System - 1941
Jeanne d'Arc - Joan of Arc - published 1943

Poetry:

Serres chaudes - 1889
Douze chansons - 1896
Quinze chansons - expanded version of Douze chansons - 1900

Essays:

Le Trésor des humbles - The Treasure of the Humble - 1896
La sagesse et la destinée - Wisdom and Destiny - 1898
La Vie des abeilles - The Life of the Bee - 1901
Le temple enseveli - The Buried Temple - 1902
Le Double Jardin - The Double Garden - 1904
L'Intelligence des fleurs - The Intelligence of Flowers - 1907
L'Hôte inconnu - first published in English translation, 1914; in original French, 1917
Les Débris de la guerre - 1916
La Vie des termites - The Life of the Termite - 1926
La Vie de l'espace - The Life of Space - - 1928
La Grande Féerie - 1929
La Vie des fourmis - The Life of the Ant - 1930
L'Araignée de verre - 1932
Avant la grande silence - Before the Great Silence - 1934
L'Ombre des ailes - The Shadow of Wings - 1936
Devant Dieu - 1937

Memoirs:

Bulles bleues - 1948.                          

Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911.