Multiple choice general knowledge history

Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913?

  1. Mirza Ghalib

  2. Debendranath Tagore

  3. Rabindranath Tagore

  4. Mohammad Iqbal
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Explanation

Rabindranath Tagore won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature for Gitanjali becoming the first non-European and first Asian laureate. Mirza Ghalib was a 19th-century Urdu poet who died in 1869, Debendranath was Rabindranath's father (not the laureate), and Mohammad Iqbal was a poet-philosopher who wrote in the early 20th century.

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