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Which Asians have won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
1. 1913: [India] Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). ?

1. Award-winning works: "Jitan Shaoli" and "Hungry Stone". ?

2. Award Category: Poetry, Novel.

2. 1968: [Japan] Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972).

1. The award-winning work: "Snow Country - Thousand Cranes - Ancient Capital". ?

2. Award Category: Novel.

3. 1994: [Japan] Oe Kenzaburo.

1. Award-winning work: "The Experience of Novel".

4. Nobel Prize for Literature:

It was Nobel who wrote his will on November 27, 1895, donating all his property of more than 31.22 million Swedish kronor to establish a fund, and the interest will be used as The prize is awarded to "the person who has made the greatest contribution to mankind in a year." According to his will, the Swedish government established the "Nobel Foundation" in the same year, which is responsible for awarding the annual interest of the fund in five equal parts, one of which is the Literature Prize.

On May 4, 2018, according to the Russian Satellite News Agency, due to being embroiled in a sex scandal, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences stated that it would not award the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2018 and would reserve it for 2019. .

At 19:00 on October 10, 2019, the Swedish Academy announced that the 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prizes for Literature will be awarded to Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian writer Peter Hand respectively. gram.