​​Rabindranath Tagore was announced as the first non-European | The Nobel Prize

​​Rabindranath Tagore was announced as the first non-European Literature Laureate On Nov 13, 1913.

Tagore was awarded the #NobelPrize "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."