Rabindra Tagore first non-European to win Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913

 

On 10 December 1913, Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to be presented with the Nobel Prize for Literature for "Gitanjali"

Gitanjali, is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the English translation, Song Offering. It is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. Its central theme is devotion and motto is 'I am here to sing thee songs.’