Rabindranath Tagore
7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941
Bengali poet, writer, and composer who became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He founded the school at Santiniketan that grew into Visva-Bharati University.
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Life events
Birth
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Founded an experimental school at Santiniketan
1901
Career
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
13 November 1913
He was recognized largely for Gitanjali, his own English renderings of his Bengali poems.
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Renounced his knighthood in protest at the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
30 May 1919
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