Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, novelist, playwright, and composer who helped reshape the literature and music of his region. He is best known for the poetry of Gitanjali and the novels Gora and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World). In 1913 he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he wrote and composed the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. He died in 1941.