Name: Sully Prudhomme.
Real Name: René François Armand “Sully” Prudhomme.
Country: France.
Nationality: French.
Date of Birth: March16, 1839.
Died: September 6, 1907.
Education: He was discontinue engineering studies because eye disease, and then began studying law in a notary’s office.
Literary movement: Parnassianism.
Popularly Known: Member of the French Academy from 1881 until his death in 1907.
Profession: Writer, Philosophy.
Noble Prize Year: Nobel Prize for Peace in 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 belonged to the French Parnassian school, a group of poets who aspired to write in a traditional and formally elegant style in the vein of Théophile Gauthier. La Parnasse Contemporain, an anthology, gave the movement its name. With a Parnassian commitment to formal excellence and a passion for philosophy and science, Prudhomme combined these two interests in his poetry. His exalted poetry fit with Alfred Nobel’s description of perfect works, the Swedish Academy claimed.
