Rabindranath Thakur
Pen Name: Rabindranath Tagore
Born: 7 May 1861
Died: 7 August 1941
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) was an Indian poet, painter, novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright and musician. He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913).
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