In which year Rabindranath Tagore got his first novel prize and in which place?
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Poet Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his collection Gitanjali published in London in 1912. The prize gained even more significance by being given to an Indian for the first time. This honour established Tagore’s literary reputation worldwide. Tagore returned his Knighthood for Services to Literature, which he was awarded in 1915, in protest against the 1919 Amritsar Massacre. Tagore was also well known as an artist and educational theorist. His school at Santiniketan and Viswa-Bharati University focused on developing the child’s imagination and had a lasting impact on pedagogy. Santiniketan engaged many scholars from across the world, including his English friends, Oxford professor E J Thompson, missionary C F Andrews and Lord Elmhirst, who emulated Tagore’s learning and teaching style at Dartington Hall, Devon.
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (About this soundlisten); born Robindronath Thakur, 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941; sobriquet Gurudev, Kobiguru, Biswakobi)[a] was a Bengali polymath – poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter.[2] He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" of Gitanjali,[3] he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.[4] Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal.[5] He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal".[6]Native name
রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
Born
Robindronath Tagore
7 May 1861, 25th of Baishakh, 1268 (Bengali calendar)
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Died
7 August 1941 (aged 80)
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Resting place
Ashes scattered in the Ganges
Pen name
Bhanusingha (ভানুসিংহ)
Occupation
Poetnovelistdramatistessayiststory-writercomposerpainterphilosophersocial reformereducationistlinguistgrammarian
Language
Bengali
Period
Bengali Renaissance
Literary movement
Contextual Modernism
Notable works
GitanjaliGhare-BaireGoraJana Gana ManaRabindra SangeetAmar Shonar Bangla(other works)
Notable awards
Nobel Prize in Literature
1913
Spouse
Mrinalini Devi