Rene Sully Prudhomme (note: name is misspelled as 'Prudhome' in option D) was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901. He was a French poet and essayist. Albert Camus won in 1957, Ernest Hemingway in 1954, and Knut Hamsun (also misspelled as 'Hamson') won in 1920.