Awards & Winners

Sully Prudhomme

Date of Birth 16-March-1839
Place of Birth Paris
(ÃŽle-de-France, France, Seine)
Nationality France
Profession Poet, Essayist
René François Armand Prudhomme was a French poet and essayist, and was the first ever winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1901. Born in Paris, Prudhomme originally studied to be an engineer, but turned to philosophy and later to poetry; he declared it as his intent to create scientific poetry for modern times. In character sincere and melancholic, he was linked to the Parnassus school, although, at the same time, his work displays characteristics of its own.

Awards by Sully Prudhomme

Check all the awards nominated and won by Sully Prudhomme.

1901


Nobel Prize in Literature
(in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect)

Nominations 1901 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nobel Prize in Literature