Rabindrath Tagore
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Tagore (c. 1925)
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| Native name | রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর |
| Born | Rabindranath Thakur 7 May 1861 Calcutta, British India |
| Died | 7 August 1941 (aged 80) Calcutta, British India |
| Occupation | Writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, painter |
| Language | Bengali, English |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Literary movement | Contextual Modernism |
| Notable works | Gitanjali, Gora, Ghare-Baire, Jana Gana Mana, Rabindra Sangeet, Amar Shonar Bangla (other works) |
| Notable awards |
Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 |
| Spouse | Mrinalini Devi (m. 1883–1902) |
| Children | 5 (two of whom died in childhood) |
| Relatives | Tagore family |
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Rabindranath TagoreFRAS (/rəˈbɪndrənɑːt tæˈɡɔːr/; Bengali: [robind̪ronat̪ʰ ʈʰakur]), also written Ravīndranātha Thākura (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941),sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal.
A Pirali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old. At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics. By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name. As a humanist, universalist internationalist, and ardent anti-nationalist, he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand songs; his legacy endures also in the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University.
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