Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore was born #OTD in 1861.
Tagore wrote poetry, short stories, novels, and plays. He is best known for his poetry, and his collection "Gitanjali" is particularly renowned. This work earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. By way of translations, Tagore influenced Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Octavio Paz, José Ortega y Gasset, Zenobia Camprubí, and Juan Ramón Jiménez.
Books by Rabindranath Tagore at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/942