Poet

Rabindranath Tagore

1861–1941 · India · Bengal Renaissance

Born in Calcutta, India

Bengali polymath whose poetry bridges devotion, nature, and modern India.

Biography

Tagore (1861–1941) reshaped Bengali literature and became the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature (1913).

Literary period: Bengal Renaissance

Gitanjali; songs and lyrics

Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913

India