April 12, 2011 5:13 PM

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Bangladesh to bring out series of books on Tagore

To honour literary great Rabindranath Tagore, Bangladesh intends to bring out a series of books this year that will explore the different facets of the personality of the Nobel Laureate. The Director General of Bangla Academy, Shamsuzzaman Khan said, at least 30 books by different authors are in the offing on the painter, musician, novelist and poet who redefined Bangla literature and was the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in literature. Mr. Shamsuzzaman Khan, was part of a delegation of Bangladeshi officials which was in India recently to discuss the joint anniversary celebrations of Tagore considered as a common legacy on the two sides of the border.

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