Rene F.A. Sully-Prudhomme

awards:

  • Nobel Prize for Literature(1901)

reference info

bio notes:
born: 3/16/1839
died: 9/7/1907
born as: Rene Francois-Armand Prudhomme
nationality: France

French poet who was a leading member of the Parnassian movement, which sought to restore elegance, balance, and aesthetic standards to poetry. He was elected to the Academie Francaise in 1881 and was awarded the first Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901.- Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

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