Rabindranath Tagore

Known for

Gitanjali, Bengali Renaissance literature

Biography

Bengali poet, writer and composer, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913), who also wrote the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh.

A well-known line

"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high."

Major works

• Gitanjali
• Gora
• The Home and the World