Which iris writer did rabindranath tagore nominate for the nobel prize in literature in 1935

(7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) Fakrul Alam University of Dhaka This entry was updated by Alam from his Tagore entry in DLB 323: South Asian Writers in English. SELECTED BOOKS IN ENGLISH: Gitanjali (Song Offerings), introduction by Glimpses of Bengal Life: Being Short Stories from the Bengali of The Gardener (London: Macmillan, 1913; Sâdhanâ: The Realisation of Life (London: Macmillan, 1913; The Crescent Moon: Child-Poems (London: Macmillan, 1913; New York: Macmillan, 1913); Chitra: A Play in One Act (London: India Society, 1913; London: Macmillan, 1914; New York: Macmillan, 1914); The King of the Dark Chamber (London: Macmillan, 1914; New York: Macmillan, 1914); The Fruit-Gathering (London: Macmillan, 1916; New York: Macmillan, 1916; Calcutta: Macmillan of India, 1916); The Hungry Stones and Other Stories, translated by Tagore, C. F. Andrews, Edward J. Thompson, Panna Lai Basu, Prabhat Kumar Mukerji, and Sister Nivedita (London: Macmillan, 1916; New York: Macmillan, 1916); Stray Birds (New York & Toronto: Macmillan, 1916; London: Macmillan, 1917); My Reminiscences, translated by Surendranath Tagore (New York: Macmillan, 1917); republished as Reminiscences (London: Macmillan, 1917); Sacrifice and Other Plays (London: Macmillan, 1917; New York: Macmillan, 1917); The Cycle of Spring, translated by Andrews and Nishikanta Sen, translation revised by Tagore (London: Macmillan, 1917; New York: Macmillan, 1917); Nationalism (London: Macmillan, 1917; New York: Macmillan, 1917); Perso...

Poet Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his collection Gitanjali published in London in 1912. The prize gained even more significance by being given to an Indian for the first time. This honour established Tagore’s literary reputation worldwide. Tagore returned his Knighthood for Services to Literature, which he was awarded in 1915, in protest against the 1919 Amritsar Massacre. Tagore was also well known as an artist and educational theorist. His school at Santiniketan and Viswa-Bharati University focused on developing the child’s imagination and had a lasting impact on pedagogy. Santiniketan engaged many scholars from across the world, including his English friends, Oxford professor E J Thompson, missionary C F Andrews and Lord Elmhirst, who emulated Tagore’s learning and teaching style at Dartington Hall, Devon. Shelfmark: 14129.cc.29 •

Mallards splash with abandon in the watery weeds and reeds that ring the ornamental duck pond here in St Stephen’s Green, if not the heart of Dublin then certainly its soul, where the city’s comings and goings can be countenanced and contemplated. For generations, Dublin’s dwellers and denizens have strolled the leafy tree-lined path around the Green, overlooked by mostly four-storey buildings that were once town homes to a merchant class in the second-most important city in the British Empire, with the houses built during the reigns of the four consecutive King’s George. The entrance itself is marked by a dramatic granite and limestone arch monument erected in 1907 and dedicated to the men of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers regiment who served during the Second Boer War, with the names of 222 dead inscribed in the underside of the portal. And it was across St Stephen’s Green during the failed 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland that rebels, holding the sturdy Royal College of Surgeons building, traded gunfire with British soldiers in the ornate Shelbourne Hotel. But both revolutionaries and regulars alike stopped shooting each day in a temporary ceasefire to allow the park keepers to feed a previous generation of those splashing ducks. The park reeks of history. But cloistered in a quiet corner, among the sculptures to other Irish and British heroes of generations past, is one that stands apart in stony silence. It’s a bust of Rabindranath Tagore, the Bard of Be...