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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sully Prudhomme has received more than 304,672 page views. His biography is available in 99 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 94 in 2019). Sully Prudhomme is the 115th most popular writer (up from 117th in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from France (up from 133rd in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Writer.

Sully Prudhomme is most famous for his poetry.

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  • 99

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 19.93

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  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sully Prudhomme ranks 115 out of 7,302. Before him are August Strindberg, Haruki Murakami, Apuleius, Jean de La Fontaine, George Bernard Shaw, and E. T. A. Hoffmann. After him are Federico García Lorca, Anatole France, Jean Cocteau, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Bukowski, and Ivo Andrić.

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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, Alfred Sisley, Charles Sanders Peirce, Carol I of Romania, George Armstrong Custer, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, Josephine Cochrane, and Nikolay Przhevalsky. Among people deceased in 1907, Sully Prudhomme ranks 4. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev, Edvard Grieg, and Klara Hitler. After him are William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Oscar II of Sweden, Henri Moissan, Hector Malot, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Alfred Jarry, Giosuè Carducci, and Pierre Janssen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Sully Prudhomme ranks 117 out of 6,770. Before him are Maurice Ravel (1875), Bernard of Clairvaux (1090), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), Hector Berlioz (1803), Marie Thérèse of France (1778), and Charles VII of France (1403). After him are Charles VIII of France (1470), Roman Polanski (1933), Anatole France (1844), Jean Cocteau (1889), Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708), and Guy de Maupassant (1850).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Sully Prudhomme ranks 25. Before him are Arthur Rimbaud (1854), François Rabelais (1494), George Sand (1804), Marquis de Sade (1740), André Gide (1869), and Jean de La Fontaine (1621). After him are Anatole France (1844), Jean Cocteau (1889), Guy de Maupassant (1850), Paul Verlaine (1844), François Villon (1431), and Alexandre Dumas fils (1824).

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