Toni Morrison in 1993
There is no prize for African literature
Toni Morrison, was the first African American woman to win a nobel prize in literature in 1993
Toni Morrison
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.
Toni Morrison in 1993
Nadine Gordimer is first South African and the seventh woman to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1991.
Desmond Tutu, the first South African to win a Nobel prize, won it in 1984.
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.
The first Nobel Prize winner from Turkey was Orhan Pamuk. He won the 2006 Nobel prize in literature.
1950 - Ralph J. Bunche
Wole Soyinka
The first Asian to win a Nobel Prize was Rabindranath Tagore from India. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his work "Gitanjali."