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Ruskin Bond

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Born: May 18 1934

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 children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.

Ruskin Bond

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Born: May 18 1934

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 children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.

Books from Ruskin Bond

The Blue Umbrella

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Room on the Roof

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Best Of Ruskin Bond

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Delhi Is Not Far

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Rusty, the Boy from the Hills

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Roads To Mussoorie

4.1/5 ( ratings)

A Book of Simple Living

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A GATHERING OF FRIENDS: MY FAVOURITE STORIES

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Ghost Stories of Shimla Hills

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Great Stories for Children

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Cherry Tree

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Notes From A Small Room: Signed As Essays From A Small Room

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Penguin Book Of Indian Ghost Stories

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Angry River

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Tigers for Dinner: Tall Tales by Jim Corbett's Khansama

The Road To The Bazaar

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography

4.7/5 ( ratings)