Rabindranath Tagore

RABINDRANATH TAGORE was a Bengali poet, philosopher, playwright, painter, and composer, and the author of Gitanjali: Song Offerings. His output spanned poetry, plays, songs, novels, short stories, memoir, and essays.

In 1913, Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded for Gitanjali: Song Offerings. He founded the experimental school that grew into Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan and wrote the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh.

Tagore died on August 7, 1941, in Calcutta, India.

Rabindranath Tagore’s books are published by SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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