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Often referred to as ‘The Shakespeare of the East’, Rabindranath Tagore is a central figure in Bengali and Indian history, reshaping art and literature through his poems, novels, short stories and plays. His captivating style is treasured for its hypnotic rhythms, striking imagery and overflow of the soul – gorgeously captured by artist Anagh Banerjee's delicate woodcuts scattered throughout Folio’s edition. In his introduction, novelist Amit Chaudhuri not only explores Tagore’s writings in relation to the text itself, but also responds to the Gitanjali’s original 1913 introduction by W. B. Yeats, further contextualising the title’s history and nuances for new and old readers alike.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Anagh Banerjee is an artist from Bombay who now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated with an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2018, and is now a printmaker and illustrator whose work is inspired by music, poetry and history. His work has been widely exhibited in the United States, most recently as part of the show Partition in the Modern World in Evanston, Illinois, in 2023, and he has been commissioned by clients including The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review. Other work includes branding, poster and exhibition design as well as woodcut book illustration and art direction for a virtual reality experience based on first-hand accounts of the Partition of India.
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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Anagh Banerjee is an artist from Bombay who now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated with an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2018, and is now a printmaker and illustrator whose work is inspired by music, poetry and history. His work has been widely exhibited in the United States, most recently as part of the show Partition in the Modern World in Evanston, Illinois, in 2023, and he has been commissioned by clients including The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review. Other work includes branding, poster and exhibition design as well as woodcut book illustration and art direction for a virtual reality experience based on first-hand accounts of the Partition of India.
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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Anagh Banerjee is an artist from Bombay who now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated with an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2018, and is now a printmaker and illustrator whose work is inspired by music, poetry and history. His work has been widely exhibited in the United States, most recently as part of the show Partition in the Modern World in Evanston, Illinois, in 2023, and he has been commissioned by clients including The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review. Other work includes branding, poster and exhibition design as well as woodcut book illustration and art direction for a virtual reality experience based on first-hand accounts of the Partition of India.
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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Anagh Banerjee is an artist from Bombay who now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated with an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2018, and is now a printmaker and illustrator whose work is inspired by music, poetry and history. His work has been widely exhibited in the United States, most recently as part of the show Partition in the Modern World in Evanston, Illinois, in 2023, and he has been commissioned by clients including The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review. Other work includes branding, poster and exhibition design as well as woodcut book illustration and art direction for a virtual reality experience based on first-hand accounts of the Partition of India.
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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Anagh Banerjee is an artist from Bombay who now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated with an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2018, and is now a printmaker and illustrator whose work is inspired by music, poetry and history. His work has been widely exhibited in the United States, most recently as part of the show Partition in the Modern World in Evanston, Illinois, in 2023, and he has been commissioned by clients including The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review. Other work includes branding, poster and exhibition design as well as woodcut book illustration and art direction for a virtual reality experience based on first-hand accounts of the Partition of India.
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Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) is a central figure in Indian cultural history. He played a key role in the Bengali Renaissance, which seized on Western forms and ushered in a new, modernising vitality. Tagore reshaped Bengali literature in his poems, novels, short stories and plays, and his writing has long been acclaimed for its freshness, beauty and rejection of classical rigidity. He was also an accomplished visual artist and an acute political commentator in his essays, which reveal a deep opposition to imperialism and a sceptical ambivalence about Indian nationalism. In 1913 Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and he is still honoured as one of South Asia’s finest writers: his words are used as the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh and eight museums are dedicated to his memory. Tagore was raised in the family’s mansion in Calcutta, but later travelled widely; he spent periods managing estates elsewhere in Bengal and also living in England, but returned to Calcutta and died in his ancestral home.
Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, critic, poet and singer from India. The author of eight novels, most recently Sojourn (2022), he has also published short fiction, essays and book-length non-fiction on Tagore, Calcutta, D. H. Lawrence and Indian music, among many other subjects. He edited the path-breaking Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature and has also performed internationally as a singer of North Indian classical music. Chaudhuri was professor of contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia until 2021, and now teaches creative writing at Ashoka University in India. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has won awards including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his fiction. Born in Calcutta and raised in Bombay, he studied in London and Oxford and now lives in Calcutta and the UK.