Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913
Name: Rabindranath Tagore
Birth: 7 May 1861, Calcutta, British ruled India
Death: 7 August 1941, Calcutta, British ruled India
Residence at the time of the award: India
Prize motivation: “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”
Field: Poetry
Languages: Bangali, English
“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”
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Painting Tim Tompkins – PaintHistory.com
Illustration Sabrina Brooks, Undergraduate Student
Tagore with niece Indira Devi in opera Valmiki Pratibha, written by him regarding Sage Valmiki, in the role of the sage, 1881. Photo: Wikipedia
Tagore with wife Mrinalini Devi, 1883. Photo: Wikipedia
Tagore with daughter Bela to his left and daughter-in-law Pratima to his right. Photo: Wikipedia
Photo taken sometime in 1916. Source: Library of Congress
Photo taken sometime in 1916. Source: Library of Congress
Photo taken sometime in 1916. Source: Library of Congress
Tagore in Tsinghua University, China 1924. Photo: Wikipedia
Tagore with Einstein 1930. Photo: Wikipedia
At the Majlis in Tehran, Iran, 1932. Photo: Wikipedia
Tagore with Gandhi, 1940. Gandhi was Tagore’s devoted friend.Photo: Wikipedia
Tagore hosts Gandhi and wife Kasturba at Santiniketan in 1940. Photo: Wikipedia
One of the last 3 pictures of Tagore. Uploader: Rahat. Photo: Wikipedia