How was Sully Prudhomme awarded the Noble Prize in Literature?

Name: Sully Prudhomme.
Real Name: René François Armand “Sully” Prudhomme.
Date of Birth: March16, 1839.
Birth Place: Paris, France.
Died: September 6, 1907.
Death Place: Châtenay-Malabry, France.
Nationality: French.
Education: He was discontinue engineering studies because eye disease, and then began studying law in a notary’s office.
Literary movement: Parnassianism.
Popularly Known: Member of the French Academy from 1881 until his death in 1907.
Noble Prize Year: Nobel Prize for Peace 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.