Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj
philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer
whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries. A cultural icon of Bengal and India, he
became Asia's first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize
in Literature.
William Radice was born in 1951 in London. He is a poet and a
scholar and translator of Bengali, and has written or edited nearly
thirty books. He has also translated Tagore's short stories and his
novel, The Home and the World, for Penguin.
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
“An important book . . . William Radice's introduction is
excellent.” —The Sunday Times (London)
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