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Rabindranath Tagore also written Rabindranatha Thakura was born 7 May 1861 Tagore (nicknamed " Rabi ") was born in the Jorasanko mansion in Kolkata to parents Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi, In 1883 he married Mrinalini Devi, born Bhabatarini, they had five children, two of whom died in childhood. sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models base....
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