<P> 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 . </P>
<P> 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 . </P>
who was the first nobel laureate to have been born in asia
who was the first nobel laureate to have been born in asia
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore