Pagine1861–1941 · Calcutta (Kolkata), India · also known as Tagore, Gurudev
Rabindranath Tagore — poet, novelist, composer, painter and educator — reshaped Bengali literature and music. His own English versions of his songs, Gitanjali (1912), made him in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh, the novel The Home and the World (1916), and stories such as “The Kabuliwala,” and founded the university at Santiniketan.
Begin with Gitanjali.
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Rabindranath Tagore — poet, novelist, composer, painter and educator — reshaped Bengali literature and music. His own English versions of his songs, Gitanjali (1912), made him in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Gitanjali is usually considered Rabindranath Tagore’s best-known work, followed by The Home and the World, The Post Office, The Gardener.
Most readers start with Gitanjali.
Both refer to the same writer. Other spellings and names include Tagore, Gurudev.
Yes — 2 of Rabindranath Tagore’s books are free to read online in Pagine, the free e-reader and reading tracker.