Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of "Gitanjali" and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" (The Nobel Foundation), he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature.
Rabindranath Tagore
Author details
- Born:
- May 7, 1861
- Died:
- Aug. 7, 1941
