The first Nobel Prize to be awarded to a South Asian was to? A) Rabindranath Tagore B) Sir C.V. Raman C) Dr. Abdul Salam D) Dr. Amartya Sen Detail Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his collection Gitanjali published in London in 1912. Related MCQs: Dr. Abdus Salam was awarded Nobel Prize for having work on which basic forces? Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, for his outstanding contribution to present-day poetry? Which year was Dr. Abdus Salam awarded Nobel Prize? The Nobel Prize has been awarded in —–fields.