Ruskin Bond

Ruskin Bond

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Born in Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar (Gujarat), Dehradun, New Delhi and Simla. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written over 500 short stories, essays and novellas (including Vagrants in the Valley and A Flight of Pigeons) and more than forty books for children. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in India in 1993, the Padma Shri in 1999, and the Delhi government's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
He lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his extended family.
6th October 2014

The Tunnel

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6th May 1993

Panther's Moon

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10th November 2008

How to Be Happy

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15th November 2011

The Kashmiri Storyteller

As darkness falls outside; and the chill sets in; Javed Khan pulls at his hookah and begins his stories…When Kamal and h... MoreThe Kashmiri Storyteller

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9th May 2006

Puffin Good Reading Guide For Children

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19th June 2003

Rusty: Runs Away

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