The polymath Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, dramatist, and writer from Santiniketan, now in West Bengal, India, became in 1913 the first Asian Nobel laureate.
ðə pˈɑːlɪmˌæθ ɹˈæbaɪndɹɐnˌæθ tˈæɡoːɹ, ɐ bɛŋɡˈɑːli pˈoʊɪt, dɹˈæmətˌɪst, ænd ɹˈaɪɾɚ fɹʌm sˈæntɪnˌaɪktən, nˈaʊ ɪn wˈɛst bˌɛŋɡˈɔːl, ˈɪndiə, bɪkˌeɪm ɪn nˈaɪntiːnhˈʌndɹɪd θˈɜːtiːn ðə fˈɜːst ˈeɪʒən noʊbˈɛl lˈɔːɹiːˌeɪt.