Question of The Day13-06-2023
______ was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913 and a knighthood in 1915.
Answer
Correct Answer : c ) Rabindranath Tagore
Explanation :Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter.
He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
He became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
He was awarded a knighthood by King George V in the 1915 Birthday Honours, but Tagore renounced it after the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Hence, (c) is the correct answer.
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