Mr Andrew Robinson
Nationality: United Kingdom
Year: 1990
Subject Area: Arts and Humanities
Website: Visit (opens in a new window)In 1990, I was awarded a Wingate Scholarship to work on a biography of the writer, artist and composer, Rabindranath Tagore. The scholarship helped me to research the book at the Tagore archives at Santiniketan in India. Co-written with Krishna Dutta, the biography was published in hardback by Bloomsbury in 1995 as Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man, and subsequently as a paperback. The book was very widely reviewed and acclaimed by writers and scholars ranging from Candia McWilliam and Amit Chaudhuri to P. N. Furbank and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a Nobel laureate. The research generated a further book, Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore, published by Cambridge University Press in 1997, with a foreword by Amartya Sen, also a Nobel laureate. From 1994-2006, I was literary editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement, and wrote many further books. As of 2007, I became a full-time writer and a visiting fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge,