GK
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
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Sumitranandan Pant
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Makhanlal Chaturvedi
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Maithili Sharan Gupt
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rabindranath Tagore, one of the greatest ever multifaceted poet, writer, artist and lyricist, from Bengal was honored with a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his profound book of Song Offerings called “Gitanjali”.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gitanjali-Song Offerings. By Rabindranath Tagore. A collection of prose translations made by the author from the original Bengali, with an introduction by W. B. Yeats [and a portrait of the author by W. Rothenstein].
Detailed explanation-4: -It was published in 1912 with an introduction by William Butler Yeats. Tagore based the poems in Gitanjali on devotional songs from India in the Middle Ages. He also wrote music to go with these words. Love is the main theme, but some poems also talk about the struggle between spiritual longings and earthly desires.