<page_title> List of Asian Nobel laureates </page_title> <section_title> Literature </section_title> <table> <cell> 1913 <col_header> Year </col_header> </cell> <cell> Rabindranath Tagore <col_header> Laureate </col_header> </cell> <cell> Literature <col_header> Category </col_header> </cell> <cell> First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate <col_header> Comment </col_header> </cell> </table>
The first Asian recipient, Rabindranath Tagore, was awarded the Literature Prize in 1913.