Rabindranath Tagore

Nobel Prize in Literature 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”

Rabindranath Tagore was an Indian poet, writer, and composer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. He was awarded the prize for his profoundly sensitive, fresh, and beautiful verse, which he translated into English and which became part of Western literature.

Field

Literature · Creative Writing and Poetry

Lifespan

1861–1941