Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941) — India, writing in Bengali. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
“Because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West.” — The Nobel Committee citation
About Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, composer, painter and reformer — the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh, and spent his life building bridges between Eastern tradition and modern humanist thought.
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