[[Fáìlì:Sully-Prudhomme.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Sully Prudhomme|René-François-Armand Prudhomme]] (1839–1907), a [[France|French]] [[poet]] and [[List of essayists|essayist]], was the first person to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, 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."]]
'''Ẹ̀bùn Nobel nínú Lítíréṣọ̀''' ({{lang-sv|Nobelpriset i litteratur}}) jejẹ́ ebunẹ̀bùn olodoodunọlọ́dọọdún, latiláti 1901, tití wonwọ́n máa ń fun olukoweàwọn latioǹkọ̀wé orileláti orílẹ̀-edeèdè yìówù yiowutí tiwá, gegegẹ́gẹ́ bibí ogun [[Alfred Nobel]] seṣe sosọ, o se "ninu papa litireso ise pataki lona to daa" (ni ede Sweden: ''den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning'').<ref name='nobelorglit'>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/ |title=The Nobel Prize in Literature |accessdate=2007-10-13 | work=nobelprize.org}}</ref><ref name='swedishref'>{{cite news | author=John Sutherland | title=Ink and Spit | publisher=The Guardian | url =http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2189673,00.html | work =Guardian Unlimited Books |date=October 13, 2007 | pages = | accessdate = 2007-10-13 | language = }}</ref> [[Swedish Academy|Akademi Swidin]] lo n pinnu tani, ti onitoun ba wa, yio gba ebun na ninu odun kan, won si n sekede oruko onitoun ninu osu kewa odun.<ref name='swedac'>{{cite web|url=http://www.swedishacademy.org/Templates/Article0.aspx?PageID=f6b62c21-7e52-408c-86f7-7eacd9144a13 | title=The Nobel Prize in Literature | accessdate=2007-10-13 |publisher=[[Swedish Academy]]}}</ref>