ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Poet Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his collection Gitanjali published in London in 1912. The prize gained even more significance by being given to an Indian for the first time. This honour established Tagore’s literary reputation worldwide.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rabindranath Tagore is the most famous composer of Bengali lyrics and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. This book includes the full text of his prize-winning book, Gitanjali (Song Offerings), in its English version along with an introduction by W.B. Yeats that was published in London in 1912.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the year 2004, on March 25th, Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel Prize, comprising of the Nobel medal and the Nobel citation were stolen. The Nobel Prize was stolen from the safety vault of the Visva Bharati University museum where it was stored. The museum was located in Santiniketan.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian citizen to be awarded and also first Asian to be awarded in 1913.