Another Frenchman, the poet Sully Prudhomme, had the backing of the ... The average age of Nobel Prize Winners in Literature is sixty-two. In only one case—that of William Butler Yeats, the ...

Sully Prudhomme, on, were of the smallest literary consequence.) A further difference lay in the fact that the Nobel Prize went to a man for his oeuvre, whereas the Pulitzer went to a single novel ...

The first author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature was the French writer Sully Prudhomme in 1901. He was awarded the prize for his poetic compositions, which demonstrated lofty idealism ...