GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The first Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded in 1901 to Sully Prudhomme of France. Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a monetary award prize that has varied throughout the years. In 1901, Prudhomme received 150, 782 SEK, which is equivalent to 8, 823, 637.78 SEK in January 2018.

Detailed explanation-2: -Poet Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his collection Gitanjali published in London in 1912. The prize gained even more significance by being given to an Indian for the first time.