Rabindranath Tagore

রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর

Rabindranath Thakur

Country

India

Languages

Bengali

Dates

1861 — 1941

nobel prizesouth asia

0

Rabindranath Thakur, also known by his pseudonym Bhanusimha was a Bengali polymath of the Bengal Renaissance period. In 1913, Tagore became the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist and non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A significant moulder of culture within the Indian subcontinent, he wrote and composed the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.