who was the first nobel laureate to have been born in asia
List of Asian Nobel laureates Asians have been the recipients of all six award categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics. The first Asian recipient, Rabindranath Tagore, was awarded the Literature Prize in 1913. The most Nobel Prizes awarded to Asian in a single year was in 2014, when five Asians became laureates. The most recent, a Japanese-born English writer, Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded his prizes in 2017.