death_date death_place birth_place imagesize awards nationality name birth_date image article_title birth_name occupation
6 september 1907 châtenay-malabry , france paris , france 200px nobel prize in literature 1901 french sully prudhomme 16 march 1839 sully prudhomme , rené-françois-armand , bnf gallica.jpg sully prudhomme
 rené françois armand prudhomme poet and essayist
sully prudhomme

rené françois armand -lrb- sully -rrb- prudhomme -lrb- ; 16 march 1839 -- 6 september 1907 -rrb- was a french poet and essayist , and was the first ever 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 intent 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 .
