Question

In which year Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature?
1. 1909
2. 1911
3. 1913
4. 1917

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : 1913

• ​Nobel Prize was the first set of awards for Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry, Literature, Physics and Peace were awarded in 1901.
• After 67 years, Sweden's central bank with the donation from donations from the Nobel Foundation established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1968.​

Rabindranath Tagore:

• Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize for the country.
• The 52-year-old Tagore was accorded the honour in 1913.
• He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of his work Geetanjali.
• He was popularly known as Gurudev.
• Geetanjali and Sadhana are among his important works.
• The poet, dramatist and novelist is also the author of India's National Anthem.
• In 1901 he founded the famous Santiniketan which later came to be known as Vishwabharati University.

Thus, In 1913 Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Here is the list of Nobel Prize winners in India:

1. Rabindranath Tagore (1913)
2. CV Raman (1930)
3. Har Gobind Khurana (1968)
4. Mother Teresa (1979)
5. Subhramanyan Chandrashekhar (1983)
6. Amartya Sen (1998)
7. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009)
8. Kailash Satyarthi (2014)
9. Abhijit Banerjee (2019)