Rabindranath Tagore Profile, early life, awards, achievements, contributions

India's First Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore Biography, Profile, Early Life, Awards, Achievements and Contribution to World Literature

Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore was also known as Rabindranath Thakur was a Bengali polymath who was Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, play writer, essayist, and painter also.

Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7th may 1861 in the Jorasanko Mansion in Kolkatta (old name Calcutta) India to Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi, Rabindranath Tagore died on 7th August 1941 Calcutta.

Rabindranath Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit.

Rabindranath Tagore spent long periods out of India from 1912, lecturing and reading from his work in Europe, the Americas, and East Asia and becoming an eloquent spokesperson for the cause of Indian independence.

In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Rabindranath Tagore's works

Rabindranath Tagore Modernized Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic structures. His Novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal.

Rabindranath Tagore's best-known works are Gitanjali (song offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced) and Ghare-Baire (The home and the World) and his verse, short stories and novels were acclaimed or panned for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism and unnatural contemplation.

Rabindranath Tagore compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems India’s "Jana Gana Mana" and Bangladesh’s "Amar Shonar" Bangla. The Srilanka national anthem was inspired by his work.

Rabindranath Tagore Novels Prize

On 25 March 2004, Rabindranath Tagore’s novel Prize was stolen from the safety vault of the Visva-Bharti University, along with several other of his belongings.

The Swedish Academy decided to present two replicas of Tagore’s Nobel Prize, One made of Gold and the other made of bronze, to the Visva Bharati University on 7th December 2007.