When the award
of Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 is announced in November, history will be
revisited: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the first non-European winner of
the prestigious prize will be honoured.
Tagore, an Indian, and also the first Asian to
win a Nobel prize was declared winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature and given
the award in December of the same year.
According to an
agency report, a mark of honour for
Tagore, a centenary celebration is already being planned by the Nobel
Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.
Tagore,
according to a statement on The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 was given the
award “because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by
which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his
own English words, a part of the literature of the West".
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