Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore ( , pronounced ; ; 7 May 1861 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. As author of Gitanjali with its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he was the first non-European and the only Indian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.O'Connell, K. M. (2008), "", Parabaas. Retrieved 2009-11-29.Amartya Sen, Tagore and His India

A Pirali BrahminDatta, P. K. (2003), "Introduction", Rabindranath Tagore's The Home and the World: A Critical Companion, Orient Longman, p. 2, ISBN 81-7824-046-7 from Kolkata, Tagore had been writing poetry since he was eight years old. At age 16, he published his first substantial poetry under the pseudonym Bhanushingho ("Sun Lion")Thompson 1926, pp....
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