Friday, August 9, 2013

Gitanjali Poems Collection released in 14 Languages

Gitanjali, the collection of poems  by Rabindranath Tagore was released in 14 different languages at Kolkata by Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal. Gitanjali  first time  published in 1913 and is a collection of 157 poems. In 1913, Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the English Gitanjali.

The English version of Gitanjali that is known as the Song Offerings is a collection of 103 English poems. These were self translated by Tagore and was published by the Indian Society of London.

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