Biography Of Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was a great Indian poet, philosopher, painter, patriot, humanist,Rabindranath was born on 6 May, 1861 in his ancestral home at Jorasanko in Calcutta. He was the fourteenth child of his parents. He was brought up in a big affluent joint family along with other children. But he was different from others.

 School education within the four walls did not please him. He liked the outside world-the open sky overhead and the earth under the feet. So he was educated at home by private teachers who taught him various subjects. From his early years, Rabindranath wrote poems. Some of his poems were published in periodicals. studied in London, returned to India, and was married in 1883. He founded Visvabharati, a university at Santiniketan (near Bolpur), He visited and lectured in Canada, the United States, South America, England and several countries of Europe, the Soviet Union, Turkey, Iran, Ceylon, China, and Japan. He was in personal contact with Henri Bergson, Benedetto Croce, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, and other leading intellectual figures of his period.

 Rabindranath Tagore wrote not only poems but also short stories, dramas, novels and essays. India's most popular poet, He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his famous book of songs called 'Gitanjali' in 1913.
The two-time winner of the prestigious Lu Xun Prize for literature regrets that not many of Tagore works have been translated into Chinese. “We expect more translations in the near future as TagoreÂ’s popularity has not decreased in China. This will give me more opportunity to read his other works as well,” he hopes.
Often described as China’s best male writer on the female psyche, Feiyu produces well-drawn characters with indulgent metaphors. His book “Three Sisters” recounts the story of three women — all siblings struggling to survive the aftermath of China’s cultural revolution, a complex moral tale that also illuminates the country’s rise from sleeping tiger to global power.