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Sully Prudhomme

1839 - 1907

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sully Prudhomme is the 129th most popular writer (down from 115th in 2019), the 132nd most popular biography from France (down from 117th in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Writer.

Sully Prudhomme is most famous for his poetry.

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Among writers, Sully Prudhomme ranks 129 out of 7,302. Before him are Muhammad Iqbal, Ivo Andrić, Naguib Mahfouz, Jane Austen, Ammianus Marcellinus, and Apuleius. After him are Jean de La Fontaine, Ezra Pound, François Villon, Günter Grass, Haruki Murakami, and Jean Cocteau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Sully Prudhomme ranks 3. Before him are Paul Cézanne, and John D. Rockefeller. After him are Modest Mussorgsky, Jamsetji Tata, Alfred Sisley, Charles Sanders Peirce, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Carol I of Romania, George Armstrong Custer, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, and Nikolay Przhevalsky. Among people deceased in 1907, Sully Prudhomme ranks 5. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev, Edvard Grieg, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, and Klara Hitler. After him are Oscar II of Sweden, Henri Moissan, Giosuè Carducci, Asaph Hall, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Hector Malot, and Alfred Jarry.

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In France

Among people born in France, Sully Prudhomme ranks 132 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Aznavour (1924), Peter Abelard (1079), Pope Gregory XI (1370), Marie Thérèse of France (1778), François Hollande (1954), and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708). After him are Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Pope Benedict XII (1280), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), Albert Schweitzer (1875), François Villon (1431), and Charles VII of France (1403).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Sully Prudhomme ranks 27. Before him are Arthur Rimbaud (1854), François Rabelais (1494), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Marquis de Sade (1740), Anatole France (1844), and André Gide (1869). After him are Jean de La Fontaine (1621), François Villon (1431), Jean Cocteau (1889), Paul Verlaine (1844), Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), and Jean Racine (1639).

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