Who was Rabindranath Tagore?
While many believe Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; 24 May 1941) was the first “songwriter” to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, that distinction arguably best applies to Rabindranath Tagore (born Rabindranath Thakur, 7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941).
He was an Indian polymath - poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter who won the prize in 1913. Much like Dylan, Tagore worked across multiple genres, including poetry, and composed roughly 2,000 songs, many of which remain popular today.
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Stevie G
He seems to have been a lot more than a songwriter.
rkcorrigan
Another question where two answers could be correct - songwriter which addresses only one of his areas of expertise, or a rabbinical scholar which addresses a more complete description of his many areas of expertise - and the wrong choice (songwriter) is supposedly the more correct answer.