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Rabindranath Tagore. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913. Born: 7 May 1861, Calcutta, India. Died: 7 August 1941, Calcutta, India. Residence at the time of the award: India.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore "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 had not been nominated for the prize before 1913, making it one of the rare occasions when an author have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year they were first nominated. He was nominated by British poet Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944), which led him to being awarded with the prize.
On 25 March 2004, Tagore's Nobel Prize was stolen from the safety vault of the Visva-Bharati University, along with several other of his belongings. On 7 December 2004, the Swedish Academy decided to present two replicas of Tagore's Nobel Prize, one made of gold and the other made of bronze, to the Visva-Bharati University.
Aug 28, 2001 · The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913. Rabindranath Tagore. Share this. Rabindranath Tagore. Article. Tagore and his India. by Amartya Sen * Voice of Bengal. Rabindranath Tagore, who died in 1941 at the age of eighty, is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal.
May 13, 2024 · Rabindranath Tagore, the revered Bengali poet and polymath, left an enduring legacy through his profound literary works and became the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature. Rabindranath Tagore | Biography, Poems, Short Stories, Nobel Prize, & Facts | Britannica
Apr 2, 2014 · Updated: Jun 24, 2021. Photo: Bettmann / Contributor. Synopsis. Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, novelist and painter best known for being the first non-European to be awarded the...
