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Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond at a book release function in Bangalore (June 6, 2012) Born 19 May 1934 Kasauli, Punjab, British India Occupation Writer Nationality India Period 1934–present Ruskin Bond From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. The Indian Council for Child Education recognised his pioneering role in the growth of children's literature in India, and awarded him the Sahitya Academy Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra, given by the Sahitya Academy, India's National Academy of Literature. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour, in Mussoorie. Contents 1 Life and career 2 Filmography 3 Literary style 4 Famous Works 4.1 Collections / Anthologies 4.2 Novels 5 Awards and Recognitions 6 References 7 External links Life and career Ruskin Bond was born on 19 May 1934 in a military hospital, to Edith Clarke and Aubrey Bond. His siblings were Ellen and William. At present, his sister Ellen lives in Jallandhar, Punjab and brother William lives in Canada. Ruskin's father was with the Royal Air Force. When Bond was four years old, his mother separated from his father and married a PunjabiHindu, Mr. Hari, who himself had been married once. Bond spent his early childhood in Vijayanagar (Gujarat), Jamnagar and Shimla. At the age of ten Ruskin went to live at his grandmother's house in Dehradun after his father's sudden death in 1944 from malaria. Ruskin was raised by his grandmother. He completed his schooling at Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, from where he graduated in 1952 after winning several writing competitions in the school like the Irwin Divinity Prize and the Hailey Literature Prize. He wrote his first short story, ‘Untouchable’, at the age of sixteen in 1950. Following his high school education he went to his aunt's house in Channel Islands in England and stayed there for four years. In London he started writing his first novel, The Room on the Roof, the semi autobiographical story of the orphaned AngloIndian boy Rusty. It won the 1957 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, awarded to a British Commonwealth writer under 30. Bond used the advance money from the book to pay the sea passage to Bombay. He worked for some years as a journalist in Delhi and Dehradun. Since 1963 he has lived as a freelance writer in Mussoorie, a town in the Himalayan
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RuskinBond
RuskinBondatabookreleasefunctioninBangalore(June6,2012)
Born 19May1934Kasauli,Punjab,BritishIndia
Occupation Writer
Nationality India
Period 1934present
RuskinBondFromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia
RuskinBondisanIndianauthorofBritishdescent.
TheIndianCouncilforChildEducationrecognisedhispioneeringroleinthegrowthofchildren'sliteratureinIndia,andawardedhimtheSahityaAcademyAwardin1992forOurTreesStillGrowinDehra,givenbytheSahityaAcademy,India'sNationalAcademyofLiterature.HewasawardedthePadmaShriin1999andPadmaBhushanin2014.HenowliveswithhisadoptedfamilyinLandour,inMussoorie.
Contents
1Lifeandcareer2Filmography3Literarystyle4FamousWorks
4.1Collections/Anthologies4.2Novels
5AwardsandRecognitions6References7Externallinks
Lifeandcareer
RuskinBondwasbornon19May1934inamilitaryhospital,toEdithClarkeandAubreyBond.HissiblingswereEllenandWilliam.Atpresent,hissisterEllenlivesinJallandhar,PunjabandbrotherWilliamlivesinCanada.Ruskin'sfatherwaswiththeRoyalAirForce.WhenBondwasfouryearsold,hismotherseparatedfromhisfatherandmarriedaPunjabiHindu,Mr.Hari,whohimselfhadbeenmarriedonce.
BondspenthisearlychildhoodinVijayanagar(Gujarat),JamnagarandShimla.AttheageoftenRuskinwenttoliveathisgrandmother'shouseinDehradunafterhisfather'ssuddendeathin1944frommalaria.Ruskinwasraisedbyhisgrandmother.HecompletedhisschoolingatBishopCottonSchoolinShimla,fromwherehegraduatedin1952afterwinningseveralwritingcompetitionsintheschoolliketheIrwinDivinityPrizeandtheHaileyLiteraturePrize.Hewrotehisfirstshortstory,Untouchable,attheageofsixteenin1950.
Followinghishighschooleducationhewenttohisaunt'shouseinChannelIslandsinEnglandandstayedthereforfouryears.InLondonhestartedwritinghisfirstnovel,TheRoomontheRoof,thesemiautobiographicalstoryoftheorphanedAngloIndianboyRusty.Itwonthe1957JohnLlewellynRhysPrize,awardedtoaBritishCommonwealthwriterunder30.BondusedtheadvancemoneyfromthebooktopaytheseapassagetoBombay.HeworkedforsomeyearsasajournalistinDelhiandDehradun.Since1963hehaslivedasafreelancewriterinMussoorie,atownintheHimalayan
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foothills.[1]HewroteVagrantsintheValley,asasequeltoTheRoomontheRoof.ThesetwonovelswerepublishedinonevolumebyPenguinIndiain1993.Thefollowingyearacollectionofhisnonfictionwritings,TheBestOfRuskinBondwaspublishedbyPenguinIndia.HisinterestintheparanormalledhimtowritepopulartitlessuchasGhostStoriesfromtheRaj,ASeasonofGhosts,andAFaceintheDarkandotherHauntings.
HecurrentlyliveswithhisadoptivefamilyinLandour,Mussoorie'sIvyCottage,whichhasbeenhishousesince1964.
Filmography
TheHindifilmJunoonisbasedonBond'shistoricalnovellaAFlightofPigeons(aboutanepisodeduringtheIndianRebellionof1857).ItwasproducedbyShashiKapooranddirectedbyShyamBenegal.
RuskinBondmadehismaidenbigscreenappearancewithacameoinVishalBhardwaj'sfilm7KhoonMaaf,basedonhisshortstorySusanna'sSevenHusbands.BondappearsasaBishopinthemoviewithPriyankaChopraplayingthetitlerole.[2]BondhadearliercollaboratedwithhimintheTheBlueUmbrellawhichwasalsobasedonhisstory.
Literarystyle
MostofhisworksareinfluencedbylifeinthehillstationsatthefoothillsoftheHimalayas,wherehespenthischildhood.Hisfirstnovel,TheRoomOntheRoof,waswrittenwhenhewas17andpublishedwhenhewas21.ItwaspartlybasedonhisexperiencesatDehradun,inhissmallrentedroomontheroof,andhisfriends.Sincethenhehaswrittenoverthreehundredshortstories,essaysandnovels,includingVagrantsinTheValley,TheBlueUmbrella,FunnySideUp,AFlightofPigeonsandmorethan30booksforchildren.Hehasalsopublishedtwovolumesofautobiography.ScenesfromaWriter'sLifedescribeshisformativeyearsgrowingupinAngloIndiaTheLampisLitisacollectionofessaysandepisodesfromhisjournal.
Bondsaidthatwhilehisautobiographicalwork,RainintheMountains,wasabouthisyearsspentinMussoorie,ScenesfromaWriter'sLifedescribedhisfirst21years.ScenesfromaWriter'sLifefocusesonBond'striptoEngland,hisstruggletofindapublisherforhisfirstbookTheRoomontheRoofandhisyearningtocomebacktoIndia,particularlytoDoon."Italsotellsalotaboutmyparents",saidBond."Thebookendswiththepublicationofmyfirstnovelandmydecisiontomakewritingmylivelihood",Bondsaid,adding:"Basically,itdescribeshowIbecameawriter".
Hisnovel,TheFlightofPigeons,hasbeenadaptedintothefilmJunoon.TheRoomontheRoofhasbeenadaptedintoaBBCproducedTVseries.SeveralstorieshavebeenincorporatedintheschoolcurriculuminIndia,including"TheNightTrainatDeoli","TimeStopsatShamli"andOurTreesStillGrowinDehra.In2007,theBollywooddirectorVishalBhardwajmadeafilmbasedonhispopularnovelforchildren,TheBlueUmbrella.ThemoviewontheNationalAwardforBestChildren'sfilm.
FamousWorks
Collections/Anthologies
TheCherryTree[3]GarlandofMemories
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GhostStoriesfromtheRajFunnySideUpRainintheMountainsNotesfromtheHimalayasOurtreesstillgrowinDehraDustontheMountainsASeasonofGhostsTigersForeverATownCalledDehraAtschoolwithRuskinBondAnIslandofTreesTheNightTrainatDeoliAFaceintheDarkandOtherHauntingsPotpourriTheAdventuresofRustyTheLostRubyCrazytimeswithUncleKenTheDeathOfTreesTalesandLegendsfromIndiaTimestopsatShamliGrandpaticklesatigerFourFeathersSchoolDaysTheTigerInThetunnelMr.Oliver'sdiaryTheParrotWhoWouldn'tTalkTheDoctorTheRuskinBondChildren'sOmnibusRustyTheBoyfromHillsTheMonkeyTroubleHipHopNatureBoyFrogsinthefountainandOtherPoemsRuskinBond'sBookofNatureTigersForDinner:TallTalesByJimCorbett'sKhansamaTheRupaBookofHauntedHousesTheRupaBookofEerieStoriesThePenguinBookofIndianGhostStoriesThePenguinBookofIndianRailwayStoriesFaceintheDarkandOtherHauntingStories(CollectionofBond'sghoststories)FriendsinSmallPlacesRuskinBond'sUnfogettablePeopleRuskinBond'sGreenBook"BestFriends"
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Novels
WithLoveFromHillsTheRoomontheRoofVagrantsintheValleyScenesfromaWriter'sLifeRustyRunsawayAFlightofPigeonsLandourDaysAwritersJournal
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AwardsandRecognitions
JohnLlewellynRhysPrizein1957SahityaAkademiAwardin1992PadmaShriin1999PadmaBhushanin2014
References1. Sinha,Arpita(18May2010)."ThenameisBond,RuskinBond"(http://www.allindianewssite.com/7396/the
nameisbondruskinbond).Retrieved3March2011.2. "RuskinBondtodoacameoin'SaatKhoon..' "
(http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/newsinterviews/RuskinBondtodoacameoinSaatKhoon/articleshow/7347368.cms).TheTimesOfIndia.
3. http://books.google.co.in/books/about/The_Cherry_Tree.html?id=Iyh4HDIlSmwC&redir_esc=y4. RuskinBondcelebrates25thanniversaryofPenguininBangalore(http://www.efinews.com/2012/06/ruskin
bondinbangaloretocelebrate.html)EFNewsInternational5. Twoanniversariesandabooklaunch(http://ipaimpress.com/ruskinbondbangalore/)Ipaimpress.com
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