Sully Prudhomme, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sully Prudhomme

French poet

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1839

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 06-Sep-1907

Profession: writer, poet, philosopher, essayist, diarist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

René François Armand (Sully) Prudhomme (French: [syli p?yd?m]; 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. Born in Paris, Prudhomme 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.