CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Nobel Prize in Literature 1901.

Detailed explanation-2: -1901 Literature Prize An eye disease forced Sully Prudhomme to discontinue his engineering studies and direct his life into literature and poetry writing instead. His works showed a “rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect”, and earned him the first Literature Prize.

Detailed explanation-3: -It has awarded the first Nobel Prize in Literature to the poet and philosopher Sully Prudhomme of the French Academy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian citizen to be awarded and also first Asian to be awarded in 1913.

Detailed explanation-5: -Grazia Deledda According to the Nobel Foundation’s statutes, the Nobel Prize can in such a case be reserved until the following year, and this statute was then applied. Grazia Deledda therefore received her Nobel Prize for 1926 one year later, in 1927.