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René François Armand "Sully" Prudhomme (French: [syli pʁydɔm]; 16 March 1839 – 6 September 1907) was a French poet and essayist. He was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 .
Sully Prudhomme was nominated for the prize by 17 members of the Académie Française, of which Sully Prudhomme himself was a member.In total the Nobel committee received 37 nominations for 26 writers including Frédéric Mistral (five nominations) and Henryk Sienkiewicz (three nominations) who were subsequently both awarded the prize, and the only woman nominated, Malwida von Meysenburg. [3]
Sully Prudhomme, first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. A small plaque is set on the Statue of Liberty to display Emma Lazarus' 1883 poem, "The New Colossus" The first Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Sully Prudhomme, a French poet and essayist.
Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) France: French "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" [8] poetry, essay 1902: Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) Germany: German
In 1901, French poet and essayist Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) was the first person to be awarded the 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."
The idea of Le Parnasse contemporain began when the poet Louis-Xavier de Ricard was publishing a financially unsuccessful periodical, L'Art. [2] [3] He was advised by his friend and fellow poet Catulle Mendès to turn the weekly L'Art into an annual publication of only poems under the title Le Parnasse Contemporain.
Pensée perdue, on verses by Sully Prudhomme (1898) Wüstenbild, on verses by A. Roderich; Chant indou, on verses by Mlle Géraldine Rolland (c.1898) Dédicace (1899) De ziua ta (1900) Si j'étais Dieu, on verses by Sully Prudhomme (1897–1898) Quarantine, on verses by Enescu (1899) Prinz Waldvogelsgesang for voice, cello and piano (1901) Ein ...
August 25 – Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, (born 1861), English novelist, poet and teacher who wrote poetry under the pseudonym Anodos (taken from George MacDonald); great-grandniece of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and great niece of Sara Coleridge; September 6 – Sully Prudhomme (born 1839), French poet and essayist; 1st Nobel Prize winner