Q. Who was the first writer to win the Nobel prize?
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
Notes: The poet Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his anthology Gitanjali, published in London in 1913. The award, which was presented to an Indian for the first time, became even more significant. This honor established Tagore's literary reputation around the world. He was "revered for his deeply delicate, fresh and beautiful poetry, through which he expressed his poetic thought in his own English words, becoming part of Western literature."