Nobel laureate
Rabindranath Tagore — Nobel Prize in Literature 1913
“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”
Prize motivation
“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”
The Swedish Academy awarded Rabindranath Tagore the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature 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.
Other laureates of the 1910s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).