no, never
Alice Munro received the Nobel Prize for literature in 2013.
No he did not
Sully Prudhomme.
Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize Prize for literature in 1913.
Knut Hamsun
Doris Lessing received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. She was a British writer known for her novels, short stories, and essays that explored themes of colonialism, feminism, and relationships.
Kipling received many honorary degrees and various literary awards. The two most prestigious would be the 1907 Nobel prize for literature and in 1926 he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature
He received the 1976 Nobel Prize for Literature: "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work."
In 1920, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Knut Hamsun, a Norwegian author recognized for his novel "Growth of the Soil."
Guenter Grass
Albert Michelson in Physics. Eduard Buchner in Chemistry. Charles Laveran in Medicine. Rudyard Kipling in Literature. Ernesto Moneto and Louis Renault shared the Peace Prize.
Rabindranath Tagore of India was the first person to receive a Nobel Prize is Asia. He received it in Literature for Gitanjali.