Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali writer and musician, as well as the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1913.
<p>In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the most important voices of Bengali culture to this day. Tagore’s poetry continues to rise above geographic and cultural boundaries to capture the imaginations of readers around the world.<br></p>