Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by birthday from the calendar. Credits and feedback Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Greatest writer in modern Indian literature, Bengali poet, novelist, educator, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore was awarded the knighthood in 1915, but he surrendered it in 1919 as a protest ...

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Swapan Gupta Songs of Tagore Rabindranath Tagore is India's greatest modern poet. Winner of the Nobel Prize, he was a great educator and philosopher as well as a major dramatist and novelist. His poems captured the heart of his native Bengal, and all of India; and when he travelled to the West, his acceptance as one of the finest writers of the world was immediate and overwhelming. Ezra Pound, ...