Shesh Lekha
Nandy, Pritish, Tagore, Rabindranath . Rupa Publications India . English
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) became the first non-Westerner to win the Nobel Prize in 1913. Among the writers to have translated his work are Gide, Neruda, Pasternak and Akhmatova. His world tours featured debates with figures as diverse as his friend.
Categories: Rabindra Rachanavali
About the Author
Rabindranath Tagore was a Nobel Laureate for Literature (1913) as well as one of India�s greatest poets and the composer of independent India�s national anthem, as well as that of Bangladesh. He wrote successfully in all literary genres, but was first and foremost a poet, publishing more than 50 volumes of poetry. He was a Bengali writer who was born in Calcutta and later traveled around the world. He was knighted in 1915, but gave up his knighthood after the massacre of demonstrators in India in 1919.
