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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Rosinka Chaudhuri, the author of \\u2018The Literary Thing: History, poetry and the making of a modern cultural sphere\\u2019, to discuss Rabindranath Tagore, who, in 1913, became the first non-white and non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature \\u2013 since which he has been largely overlooked; Kate Kennedy, the author of \\u2018Dweller in the Shadows\\u2019, a new Life of the war poet Ivor Gurney, considers the \\u201cpeculiarly direct, urgent intensity\\u201d of the later work, composed while confined in an asylum; plus, let\\u2019s hear it for independent bookshops

\'Rabindranath Tagore\' by Bashabi Fraser 

\'The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore\', edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri

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