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THE FIRST NON-WHITE TO WIN NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Khuswant Singht
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Tulsidas
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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Internationally, Gitanjali (Bengali: ) is Tagore’s best-known collection of poetry, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Tagore was the first non-European to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature and second non-European to receive a Nobel Prize after Theodore Roosevelt.
Detailed explanation-2: -Poet Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his collection Gitanjali published in London in 1912.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. He was knighted by the British two years later, but he later gave it up in protest about the British policies in India.
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