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First Asian to win Noble Prize in Literature

  1. Kawabata Yasunari

  2. C. V. Raman

  3. Oe Kenzaburo

  4. Rabindranath Tagore
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Explanation

Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali, making him the first Asian laureate in this category. C.V. Raman was the first Asian Indian Nobel laureate but in Physics (1930). Kawabata Yasunari and Oe Kenzaburo won later, in 1968 and 1994 respectively.

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