Who was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Sully Prudhomme
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas Hardy
Gabriela Mistral
Answer
The Nobel Prize in Literature was first awarded in 1901 to the French poet Sully Prudhomme "in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect." Prudhomme's works, inspired by science and philosophy, exemplified late 19th century Parnassian precision and objectivity in poetry.
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