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Tagore, Rabindranath (1861–1941), most eminent modern Bengali poet, was also critic, essayist, composer, and author of short fiction innovative in Bengali literature. He is known outside India principally in English translation. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913, its first award to an Asian.

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