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In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the most important voices of Bengali culture to this day. Tagore’s poetry continues to rise above geographic and cultural boundaries to capture the imaginations of readers around the world.
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a painter, philosopher, playwright, musician and social reformer, in addition to being a poet and writer. He was instrumental in reshaping Bengali writing, music and Indian art in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He became the first non- European to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature for his famous collection of poems, Gitanjali. Tagore was referred to as 'the Poet of Bengal', and also went by the names Gurudev and Biswakabi.
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