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23 December 2002. (2002-12-23) (aged 82) Pen name. Tatamkhulu Africa. Ismail Joubert (7 December 1920 – 23 December 2002), commonly known as Tatamkhulu Afrika, which is Xhosa for Grandfather Africa, was a South African poet and writer. His first novel, Broken Earth was published when he was seventeen (under his "Methodist name"), but it was ...
Gitanjali (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি, lit. ''Song offering'') is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European and the first Asian & the only Indian to receive this honour. [1]
The poetry of South Africa covers a broad range of themes, forms and styles. This article discusses the context that contemporary poets have come from and identifies the major poets of South Africa, their works and influence. The South African literary landscape from the 19th century to the present day has been fundamentally shaped by the ...
Bengali poetry is a rich tradition of poetry in the Bengali language and has many different forms. Originating in Bengal , the history of Bengali poetry underwent three successive stages of development: poetry of the early age (like Charyapad ), the Medieval period and the age of modern poetry .
Sanchita (Collected poems), 1925. Phanimanasa (The Cactus), 1927. Chakrabak (The Flamingo), 1929. Satbhai Champa (The Seven Brothers of Champa), juvenile poems, 1933. Nirjhar (Fountain), 1939. Natun Chand (The New Moon), 1939. Morubhaskar (The Sun in the Desert), 1951. Sanchayan (Collected Poems), 1955. Nazrul Islam: Islami Kobita (A Collection ...
Contents. Song Offerings is often identified as the English rendering of Gitanjali (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি), a volume of poetry by poet Rabindranath Tagore composed between 1904 and 1910 and published in 1910. However, in fact, Song Offerings anthologizes also English translation of poems from his drama Achalayatan and nine other ...
Bengali Folk Literature includes different types of epic, poetry and drama, folktales, ballads, proverbs etc. and till now existing in community, whether literate or not may be in different form. The folklore of Bangladesh is heavily influenced by different races which were present years ago. The abundant folklore of the present-day Bangladesh ...
Manasi (Bengali: মানসী; English: "Mental Images" or "The Mind's Creation") is a 1890 Bengali poetry book written by Rabindranath Tagore. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It comes under the "Manasi-Sonar Tari Group" of Tagore's poetry writings.