Author | |
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Original title | গীতাঞ্জলি |
Language | Bengali |
Subject | Devotion to God |
Genre | Poem |
Publication date | 4 August 1910 |
Publication place | British India |
Published in English | 1912 |
Pages | 104 |
Gitanjali (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি, lit. ''Song offering'') is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European and the first Asian & the only Indian to receive this honour.[1]
It is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. Its central theme is devotion, and its motto is "I am here to sing thee songs" (No. XV).[2]
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