Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his seemingly mesmeric personality, flowing hair, and other... More

Date of birth:

  • May 7, 1861

Date of death:

  • Aug 7, 1941 (age 80 years)

Country of nationality:

Also known as:

  • R. Tagore,
  • rabIndranAth thhAkur,
  • Sir Rabindranath Tagore,
  • Tagore, Rabindranath,
  • রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর,
  • Gurudev,
  • Kabiguru Rabindranath,
  • Kaviguru Rabindranath
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Awards

Awards Won:

Year Award Notes/Description
  • 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"

Nobel Prize in Literature Winners

Award Nominations:

Year Award
  • 1913

Nobel Prize in Literature Nominees

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