Ruskin Bond
|Ruskin Bond |
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|Ruskin Bond in a Meet the Author program at Sharjah International Book Fair, |
|23 November 2011 |
|Born |19 May 1934 (age 78) |
| |Kasauli, Solan Himachal Pradesh, India |
|Occupation |Writer |
|Nationality |India |
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Ruskin Bond, born 19 May 1934 in Kasauli Distt Solan, is an Indian author of British descent.
In 1992, he received the Sahitya Akademi award for his short story collection, 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 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.
LIFE AND CAREER
Bond was born in a military hospital in Kasauli, brother to Ellen and William, the children of Edith Clerke and Aubrey Bond. Ruskin’s father was with the Royal Air Force. When Bond was four years old, his mother was separated from his father and married a Punjabi-Hindu, Mr. Hari, who himself had been married once. Bond spent his early childhood in 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 mother, who remarried an Indian businessman. He completed his schooling at Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, from where he graduated in 1952. Ruskin’s love for books and writing came early to him since his father had surrounded him with books and encouraged him to write little
|[pic] |
|Ruskin Bond in a Meet the Author program at Sharjah International Book Fair, |
|23 November 2011 |
|Born |19 May 1934 (age 78) |
| |Kasauli, Solan Himachal Pradesh, India |
|Occupation |Writer |
|Nationality |India |
| | |
Ruskin Bond, born 19 May 1934 in Kasauli Distt Solan, is an Indian author of British descent.
In 1992, he received the Sahitya Akademi award for his short story collection, 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 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.
LIFE AND CAREER
Bond was born in a military hospital in Kasauli, brother to Ellen and William, the children of Edith Clerke and Aubrey Bond. Ruskin’s father was with the Royal Air Force. When Bond was four years old, his mother was separated from his father and married a Punjabi-Hindu, Mr. Hari, who himself had been married once. Bond spent his early childhood in 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 mother, who remarried an Indian businessman. He completed his schooling at Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, from where he graduated in 1952. Ruskin’s love for books and writing came early to him since his father had surrounded him with books and encouraged him to write little