Sully Prudhomme

René François Armand Prudhomme, known as Sully Prudhomme, was born in Paris on 16 March 1839. He was meant for a career as an engineer when an eye disease kept him from it. He worked at the Creusot forges, then studied law and joined a notary's office before devoting himself to letters. Elected to the Académie française in 1881, he was in 1901 the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and devoted the prize money to the creation of a poetry prize. He spent his last years in retirement at Châtenay-Malabry, where he died in September 1907.

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• PoetryStances et PoèmesSully Prudhomme · 1865not translated into EnglishLiterature