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Rabindranath Tagore
Full Name of the recipient | Rabindranath Tagore |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Literature |
Year of Award | 1913 |
Share in Award | 100.0% |
Award Shared with | |
Motivation for the Award | because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West |
Place of Birth | Calcutta, India IND |
Date of Birth | 7 May 1861 |
Age at the time of Award | 51 years |
Place of Death | Calcutta, India IND |
Date of Death | 7 August 1941 |