Melisande helped garner him the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature.
His first poem, "Rushes," appeared in his first publication, a poetry collection entitled Serres chaudes, or Hothouses.  Following that, he became an overnight sensation with the play La Princess Maleine.  Among the dramas he wrote for his lover, Georgette Leblanc, are the medieval Pisan tragedy Monna Vanna and the youthful Aglavaine et Selysette.  His next period of writing saw such enduring essays as The Intelligence of Flowers and The Life of the Bee.  FTP, name this symbolist writer, whose children's fantasy The Blue Bird and play Pelleas et Melisande helped garner him the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature.
His first poem, "Rushes," appeared in his first publication, a poetry collection entitled Serres chaudes, or Hothouses.  
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck