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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 (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
John Davidson. The Testament of a Man Forbid [4] The Testament of a Vivisector [4] Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present (published November 1901; book states "1902") [4] [5] Laurence Hope, The Garden of Kama (U.K. title), India's Love Lyrics (U.S. title). George Meredith, A Reading of Life with Other Poems [4] Lady Margaret Sackville ...
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 ...
March 16 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet and essayist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1907) March 28 – Emily Lee Sherwood Ragan, American author and journalist (died 1918) [8] April 18 – Henry Kendall, Australian poet (died 1882) June 21 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian poet and novelist (died 1908)
Gao Xingjian, a Chinese émigré writing in Mandarin, was the previous French citizen to receive the prize (for 2000); Le Clézio was the first French-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature since Claude Simon for 1985, and the fourteenth since Sully Prudhomme, laureate of the first prize of 1901.
John Day (or Daye) (c. 1522 [1] – 23 July 1584) was an English Protestant printer.He specialised in printing and distributing Protestant literature and pamphlets, and produced many small-format religious books, such as ABCs, sermons, and translations of psalms.