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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 .
The 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature was the first awarded Nobel Prize in Literature.It was awarded to the French poet Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) "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."
Year Picture Laureate Country Language(s) Citation Genre(s) 1901: 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]
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.
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 ...
Chénier's fate has become the subject of many plays, pictures and poems, notably in the opera Andrea Chénier by Umberto Giordano, the epilogue by Sully-Prudhomme, the Stello by Alfred de Vigny, a poem by Pushkin, the delicate statue by Denys Puech in the Luxembourg, and the well-known portrait in the centre of Charles Louis Müller's Last ...
America, Why I Love Her is an album of poetry recited by John Wayne. It was released on the RCA Victor label (LSP-4828) on March 1, 1973. It consists of patriotic poems written by actor John Mitchum , the brother of Robert Mitchum .
February 24 – Rosalía de Castro, Spanish Galician poet and writer (died 1885) March 1. Ion Creangă, Romanian raconteur (died 1889) William Dean Howells, American realist novelist (died 1920) March 6 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet (died 1907) April 1 – Jorge Isaacs (Ferrer), Colombian writer, politician and explorer (died 1895)