Sully Prudhomme (pen name of Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme) was awarded the first Nobel Prize for literature in 1901. He was a French poet, born 1839, died 1907.
The first Nobel Prize winner from Turkey was Orhan Pamuk. He won the 2006 Nobel prize in literature.
in 1913, Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian Nobel Prize winner.
Rabindranath Tagore was the first nobel prize winner in India for literature in 1913
Rabindhranadh Tagore, the great Indian poet
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The first Nobel Prize was won by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941).
Marie Curie became the 1st female winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903. She was also the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1911).
He is a Noble Prize winner and he has also won 6 other awards.
The first Filipino Nobel Prize winner was Ernesto H. Presas, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his work on the theory of the weak nuclear force.
Marie Curie became the 1st female winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911. She was also the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics (1903).
Although Camus was the first African born winner he did not win the award as an African. He was considered French. The first African born, African winner was Wole Soyinka who was an African writer from Nigeria who won the Nobel Prize in 1986, and was the first African who ever won the award. He wrote an autobiography called, "The Man Died" in 1972.
Actually, the first Indian to receive a Nobel Prize was Rudyard Kipling in 1907 for literature. Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.