Who is the 1st Nobel Prize winner in India?
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian citizen to be awarded and also first Asian to be awarded in 1913.
Who was second Nobel Prize winner in India?
Sri Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman
CV Raman – Nobel Prize for Physics (1930) CV Raman or Sri Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist from Tamil Nadu who became the second of the Indian Nobel Laureates. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his exemplary work in the field of light scattering.
For which work Tagore got Nobel Prize?
Gitanjali
Poet Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his collection Gitanjali published in London in 1912. The prize gained even more significance by being given to an Indian for the first time. This honour established Tagore’s literary reputation worldwide.
Who got a Nobel Prize for literature?
Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature
| year | name | literary area |
|---|---|---|
| 2018** | Olga Tokarczuk | novelist, poet, essayist |
| 2019 | Peter Handke | novelist, poet, essayist, playwright |
| 2020 | Louise Glück | poet |
| 2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah | novelist |
Who received Nobel Prize after death?
Before the change, only two people had won a Nobel posthumously. One was Dag Hammarskjold, the Swedish secretary-general of the United Nations who died in a plane crash in 1961 but was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize later the same year.
Did Gandhi win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Mahatma Gandhi was nominated five times for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947, and 1948. But he was not awarded this award.
What is Tagore’s pseudonym?
GurudevRabindranath Tagore / Nickname
Rabindranath Tagore also known by his pen name Bhanu Singha Thakur (Bhonita), and also known by his sobriquets Gurudev, Kabiguru, and Biswakabi, was a polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the Indian subcontinent.
Who wrote Dragon Raja?
Lee Yeongdo
Dragon Raja (Korean:드래곤 라자; abbreviated as 드라) is the first series of fantasy novels written by Lee Yeongdo, one of the most famous fantasy novelists in South Korea….Dragon Raja.
| Author | Lee Yeongdo |
|---|---|
| Genre | Fantasy novel |
| Published | 1998 (Golden Bough) (paperback) 2008 (Golden Bough) (hardcover) |
| Media type | Print (Paperback; hardcover) |
Who will win the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”.