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Published: 01:36 AM, 06 September 2018 Last Update: 01:38 AM, 06 September 2018
Sully Prudhomme
René François Armand (Sully) Prudhomme was a French poet and essayist. He was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901.
He was born in Paris, originally studied to be an engineer, but turned to philosophy and later to poetry; he declared it as his intention 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.
He also founded, in 1902, the Société des poètes français with Jose-Maria de Heredia and Leon Dierx. He died suddenly on 6 September 1907, and was buried at Père-Lachaise in Paris..
