Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

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Rabindranath Thakur


Pen Name: Rabindranath Tagore

Born: 7 May 1861

Died: 7 August 1941

Nationality: Indian

Genres: Poetry, Drama, Modernism, Literary Criticism

Notable Works: Creative Unity, The Home and the World

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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