Sully Prudhomme

French poet, Nobel prize for literature winner 1901 (1839–1907)

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.