Complex sentence: René François Armand (Sully) Prudhomme (16 March 1839--6 September 1907) was a French poet and essayist, and was the first ever winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1901.
Split into simpler sentences: René François Armand (Sully) Prudhomme (16 March 1839--6 September 1907) was a French poet and essayist. He was the first ever winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901.