Rabindranath Tagore

Poet, Philosopher & Artist

(1861 – 1941) · South Asia

Bengali poet, philosopher, and artist from Calcutta who became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. His collection Gitanjali, a sequence of devotional poems, brought him international recognition. He founded the Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan and composed the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh.