Q. Who was the first Non European to win the Nobel Prize for literature?
Solution:
Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European or non-white recipient of the Nobel Prize (in any category). He won Nobel Prize for literature in 1913 for his renowned work ‘Gitanjali’.
He was the first Indian and the first Asian to won the Nobel for Literature.
Rabindranath Tagore was born in the year 1861 in the Jorasanko House in Culcutta.
At his early ages Tagore released poems under the pen ‘name Bhanusimha. Tagore was died in 1941 at the age of 80.
Rabindranath Tagore was granted with Knighthood by the British Crown in 1915. But he renounced it after the Jalian Walabagh massacre of 1919.
‘Gitanjali’, ‘Manasi, ‘Valmild-Pratibha’, ‘Gora’, ‘Dak Ghar'(The Post Office) are the famous works of Rabindranath Tagore.
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