🇮🇳 Gitanjali

Tagore's Nobel Prize-winning poetry collection; spiritual songs of devotion and beauty

India 1910 Indian Literature

📖 Key Facts

103 prose poems of devotional verse; originally in Bengali (1910), translated to English (1912)

Earned Rabindranath Tagore the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature — first Asian to win

Tagore was also offered a knighthood (1915) but renounced it in 1919 after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre

Tagore himself translated Gitanjali into English — W.B. Yeats wrote the introduction