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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1901

"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"
Sully Prudhomme
Sully Prudhomme
(pen-name of René François Armand Prudhomme)
France
b. 1839
d. 1907
 
 
 
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