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Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941) was a Bengali [[RenaissanceMan poet, novelist, dramatist, musician, and painter]]. Although largely unknown outside of India, he is considered one of the most important Bengali artists.

Tagore was born into a rich artistic family. He began writing poems at the age of 8, and [[TeenGenius at the age of 16, he wrote a group of poems that, as a joke, he claimed were long-lost 17th-century classics. Literary experts declared them to be authentic.]]

Eventually, Tagore began travelling to other countries, and, on a visit to England, he met [[Creator/WilliamButlerYeats W. B. Yeats]], who would help to popularize Tagore's work in the West. This eventually brought him to the attention of the Nobel Prize Committee, who, in 1913, awarded him the UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature, making him the first non-European to win the prize.