yunus , who was nominated for the peace fellowship at least two before , is the first person from bangladesh , a country of 147 thousand , to win a national prize . his second prize is a rare bright light in a country determined to fight muslims terrorists , and which is chronically flooding by floods and battered by storms that blow in from the bay of isles . the area , formerly known as western asia , is bordered by the lakes of bengali , india and burma .
Yunus is the first person to win a Nobel Prize.