Rabindranath Tagore-Nobel Prize for Literature (1913)

Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta and spent most of his life in the city. Tagore was considered as of the greatest poets of India and composed the national anthem of independent India as well. In 1901 Tagore founded a school by the of Shanti Niketan as a protest against the bad system of education.

He was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work ‘Gitanjali’; for the English version, published in 1912. The noble citation stated that it was "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." Next »