The 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature was the first awarded Nobel Prize in Literature. It was awarded to the French poet Sully Prudhomme "in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evi
"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."
Malwida von Meysenburg was the first woman ever nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was nominated by French historian Gabriel Monod for her magnum opus Memoirs of an Idealist
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Joseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral was an Occitan writer and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. He received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of the fresh originality a
1901 Nobel Prize in Literature
…the Académie Française, of which Sully Prudhomme himself was a member. In total the Nobel committee received 37 nominations for 26 writers including Frédéric Mistral (five nominations) and Henryk Sienkiewicz (three nominations) who were subsequently both awarded the prize, and the only woman nominated, Malwida von…
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Statue of Frédéric Mistral in Arles
Statue of Frédéric Mistral in Cannes by Tuby Victor
Plaque on the rue Louis Pasteur in Avignon where Joseph Roumanille taught such brilliant future poets as Anselme Matthieu and Frédéric Mistral