José Paz's Tagore Library is one of the most important private collections on Rabindranath Tagore in the world.
This donation from José Paz contains more than ten thousand volumes in languages from around the world, with numerous first editions in Bengali, as well as in the main European languages. The collection includes a copy of the first English edition of Gitanjali from 1912, Tagore’s most famous work, for which he became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Golden Book of Tagore
Among the volumes, The Golden Book of Tagore deserves special mention. It was published with the collaboration of his friends from around the world to commemorate his 70th birthday, and only 500 copies were printed in 1931.
Rabindranath Tagore Collection
The collection also includes books and studies on the author, works dedicated to the three educational institutions he founded north of Calcutta: the school in Santiniketan, the farm school in Sriniketan and Visva-Bharati International University, periodicals edited and founded by Tagore, more than 2,000 music CDs, videos, documentaries, paintings, prints, photographs and postage stamps. This collection is part of the ‘Rabindranath Tagore Study and Research Centre’, located at the Faculty of Commerce of the University of Valladolid, whose main purpose is to preserve, study and disseminate the work of the Bengali genius.