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Nobel Prize For Rabindranath Tagore

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In the year 1913, on this day, Nobel prize committee announced the name of Rabindranath as the recipient of Nobel prize in literature. When Rabindranath went to England in the year 1912, eminent English artist Rothenstein loved 'Geetanjali' - the collection of poems by Tagore in English. He referred Tagore to the then poets W. B. Yeats, May Sinclaire, Ezra Pound etc to read the book 'Song Offerings' in English. And Tagore received the Nobel prize for the English translation of his immortal book of poems 'Geetanjali' which later translated in many other languages. -- A. B.