Ruskin Bond

Children's Author

Ruskin Bond was born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, India on May 19th, 1934 and is the Children's Author. At the age of 89, Ruskin Bond biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
May 19, 1934
Nationality
India
Place of Birth
Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, India
Age
89 years old
Zodiac Sign
Taurus
Profession
Children's Writer, Screenwriter, Writer
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Bishop Cotton School
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Ruskin Bond Life

Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Indian descendent of British descent.

In Landour, Mussoorie, India, he lives with his adopted family.

The Indian Council for Children Education has acknowledged his contribution to India's rise in children's literature.

In 1992, He received the Sahitya Academy Award for Our Trees Even Grow in Dehra, his first book in English.

He received the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.

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Ruskin Bond Career

Life and career

In Kasauli, British India, Ruskin Bond was born in 19 May 1934 to Edith Clarke and Aubrey Alexander Bond. His father taught English to the princesses of Jamnagar palace and Ruskin's niece Ellen who lived there until he was six years old. In 1939, Ruskin's father joined the Royal Air Force, and Ruskin, his mother and sister, came to live at his maternal home in Dehradun. He was sent to a boarding school in Mussoorie a few months after. When Ruskin was eight years old, his mother divorced from his father and married Hari, a Punjabi Hindu. Ruskin's father arranged for his transfer to New Delhi, where he was posted. He was close to his father and characterized this period with his father as one of his life's best times. His father died during the war when he was ten, while he was stationed in Calcutta. Ruskin was attending his boarding school in Shimla and was alerted of his teacher's alert about the tragedy. He was utterly distraught. He was raised by his mother and stepfather, who lived in Dehradun later in life.

He obtained his education at Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, where he graduated in 1951. He has won numerous writing competitions in the school, including the Irwin Divinity Prize and the Hailey Literature Prize. At the age of 16, he wrote "Untouchable," one of his first short stories.

After his high school years, he moved to his aunt's house in the Channel Islands (U.K.) in 1951 to ensure greater prospects and stayed there for two years. He began writing his first book, The Room on the Roof, the semi-autobiographical story of the orphanaged Anglo-Indian boy Rusty; he worked in London when he was 17 years old; he wrote for a living. It was named the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1957), which was given to a British Commonwealth writer under the age of 30. While looking for a publisher, he moved to London and worked in a photo studio. Bond used the advance money to pay the sea passage to Bombay and settle in Dehradun after being published.

He worked in Delhi and Dehradun for a few years. He maintained himself financially by writing short stories and poems for newspapers and magazines. "Sometimes I was lucky and some [work] was selected, and I received a few hundred rupees," he said about his youth. Since I was in my twenties and didn't have any jobs, I was just content to be doing what I loved doing best." He moved to Mussoorie in 1963 because, besides loving the area, it was close to the editors and publishers in Delhi. For four years, he edited a journal. Penguin established a colony in India and begged him to write some books in the 1980s. In 1956, he wrote Vagrants in the Valley as a follow-up to The Room on the Roof. Penguin India's 1993 publication of these two books in a single volume. Penguin India published The Best of Ruskin Bond, a collection of his non-fiction writings, the following year. His fascination with supernatural fiction led him to write bestsellers such as Ghost Stories from the Raj, A Season of Ghosts, and A Face in the Dark. Since then, he has written over five hundred short stories, essays, and books, including The Blue Umbrella, Funny Side Up, A Flight of Pigeons (Hindi film junoon was based on this tale) and more than 50 books for children. He has also published Scenes from a Writer's Life, a writer's Life, chronicles his formative years as a writer in Anglo-India, as well as Lone Fox Dancing, a further autobiography, which was released in 2017. The Lamp is Lit is a collection of essays and excerpts from his journal.

He has lived in Mussoorie, a town in Uttarakhand's Himalayan foothills, where he and his adopted family live in Landour, Mussoorie's Ivy Cottage, which has been his home since 1980. "I'm able to write for so long," he said when asked what he likes most about his life. I started writing at the age of 17 or 18 and am now writing. I would still write if I weren't a well-known writer. "Race did not make me one," he writes in his book "Scenes from a Writer's Life." Religion did not make me one. But history did not have to do with it. And it's history that counts."

Ellen, his brother, died in Ludhiana with his stepsister until they died in 2014. He has a brother named William, who lives in Canada, as well as his sister.

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