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Ruskin Bond


Born
in Kasauli, India
May 19, 1934

Genre
Children's, Fiction, Memoir


Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India. In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 109,360 ratings · 10,693 reviews · 607 distinct works • Similar authors
The Blue Umbrella
4.25 avg rating — 12,339 ratings — published 1980 — 22 editions
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The Room on the Roof
4.14 avg rating — 9,643 ratings — published 1956 — 33 editions
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The Night Train at Deoli an...
4.21 avg rating — 5,128 ratings — published 1988 — 20 editions
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Best Of Ruskin Bond
4.29 avg rating — 3,035 ratings — published 1994 — 14 editions
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Roads to Mussoorie
4.21 avg rating — 2,648 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions
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Delhi Is Not Far
3.86 avg rating — 2,714 ratings — published 2005 — 13 editions
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A Book of Simple Living
4.52 avg rating — 2,056 ratings — published 2015 — 11 editions
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Time Stops at Shamli and Ot...
4.15 avg rating — 2,180 ratings — published 1989 — 12 editions
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Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra
4.23 avg rating — 1,994 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
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The Great Train Journey
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Series by Ruskin Bond

The Room on the Roof Vagrants in the Valley Rusty: Runs Away Rusty and the Leopard Rusty Comes Home [Aug 25, 2... Rusty Goes to London Rusty: The Boy from the Hill
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“and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
― Ruskin Bond, Scenes from a Writer's Life
tags: beauty, butterfly, childhood, human, human-nature, india, life, love, peace, ruskin-bond, war
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“To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast”
― Ruskin Bond
tags: animals, man
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“People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity.

Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves.”
― Ruskin Bond, Best Of Ruskin Bond
tags: writing
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