Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian... Wikipedia

• Born:  Rabindranath Thakur, May 07, 1861, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India, (present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
• Died:  August 07, 1941, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India, (present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
• Pen name:  Bhanusimha
• Occupation:  Poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist, story-writer, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, educationist
• Language:  Bengali
• Period:  Bengali Renaissance
• Literary movement:  Contextual Modernism
• Notable works:  Gitanjali, Ghare-Baire, Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata, Gora, Jana Gana Mana, Rabindra Sangeet, Amar Shonar Bangla, (other works)
• Notable awards:  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913
• Children:  5, including Rathindranath Tagore
• Relatives:  Tagore family
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo