It depends on the category. The Laureate (winner) in Physics was Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen; in Chemistry, Jacobus H. van 't Hoff; in Physiology or Medicine, Emil von Behring; in Literature, Sully Prudhomme; and in Peace the award was shared by Henry Dunant and Frederic Passy. These were all in 1901. The first Laureates in Economics were Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch and Jan Tinbergen in 1969.
As of 2014, 349 Americans have won a Nobel Prize. The first was Theodore Roosevelt who the Peace Prize in 1906.
Pearl S. Buck was the first woman to win the Nobel prize for literature
In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for fashioning a peace treaty between Russia and Japan during the Russo-Japanese War. He was the first American (not just president) to win the Nobel Peace Prize
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Center for Fiction First Novel Prize was created in 2006.
The first Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the poet Sully Prudhomme.
The first novel to win a Pulitzer Prize was His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan), in 1918. There was no winner in that category the first year the prize was awarded.Poole wrote 24 books between 1906 and 1949, and is (allegedly) best known for his 1915 novel, The Harbor.
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The Prize - novel - was created in 1962.
Rabindranath Tagore was the first nobel prize winner in India for literature in 1913
Dengeki Novel Prize was created in 1994.
Nobel Peace Prize.!
yes, she was the first African American woman to ever receive the prize for a fiction novel
The first woman to win the Booker Prize was Bernice Rubens in 1970. Rubens won the award for her novel, The Elected Member.
John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, won a Pulitzer Prize for best Novel in 1940.
Edith Wharton wrote a number of novels during her lifetime. Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for her novel 'The Age of Innocence'. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize.