Who was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature?

July 10, 2012 by Pamela Landy · Filed Under: Literature

Rene Francois Armand Sully Prudhomme of France in 1901.

Who was the first English writer to receive the the Nobel Prize for literature?

Rudyard Kipling in 1907.

The first American? Sinclair Lewis in 1930.