This man was the first winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.
Rudyard Kipling
Stephen Crane
Sully Prudhomme
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sully Prudhomme. A French poet and essayist, he won the prize 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."