Rabindranath Tagore
Born
in Calcutta, India
May 07, 1861
Died
August 07, 1941
Genre
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Gitanjali
861 editions
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published
1910
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Chokher Bali
by
65 editions
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published
1903
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The Home and the World
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365 editions
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published
1916
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Gora
141 editions
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published
1910
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Sesher Kobita, the Last Poem
44 editions
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published
1928
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কাবুলিওয়ালা
30 editions
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published
1892
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গল্পগুচ্ছ
25 editions
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published
1908
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Nationalism
279 editions
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published
1917
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The Post Office
207 editions
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published
1912
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নৌকাডুবি
95 editions
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published
1906
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“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Stray Birds
― Stray Birds
“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
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“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
for the heart to conquer it.”
― Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore
but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
for the heart to conquer it.”
― Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore
Polls

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Sinclair Lewis (1930)
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Winston Churchill (1953)
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Eugenio Montale (1975)
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Derek Walcott (1992)
Wisława Szymborska (1996)
Günter Grass (1999)
Herta Müller (2009)
Mario Vargas Llosa (2010)
Alice Munro (2013)
Patrick Modiano (2014)
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1903)
José Echegaray (1904)
Paul Heyse (1910)
Carl Spitteler (Olympian Spring) (1919)
Władysław Stanisław Reymont (The Peasants) (1924)
Grazia Deledda (1926)
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1931)
John Galsworthy (The Forsyte Saga) (1932)
Roger Martin du Gard (The Thibaults) (1937)
Pearl S. Buck (1938)
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Salvatore Quasimodo (1959)
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Eyvind Johnson (1974)
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Czesław Miłosz (1980)
Elias Canetti (1981)
William Golding (1983)
Claude Simon (1985)
Octavio Paz (1990)
Kenzaburō Ōe (1994)
V.S. Naipaul (2001)
Imre Kertész (2002)
J.M. Coetzee (2003)
Doris Lessing (2007)
Tomas Tranströmer (2011)
Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1908)
Gerhart Hauptmann (1912)
Verner von Heidenstam (1916)
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1933)
Eugene O'Neill (1936)
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Heinrich Böll (1972)
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