Biography of ruskin bond in detail definition

Indian novelist and short story writer (born 1934)

Ruskin Bond (born 19, May 1934) is an Indian author. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, published in 1956, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

Bond has authored more than 500 short stories, essays, and novels which includes 69 books for children.^[1] He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014.^[2]

Life

Ruskin Bond was born on 19 May 1934 ^[3][4] in Kasauli, Punjab States Agency, British India.

Biography of ruskin bond in detail definition

His father, Aubrey Alexander Bond,^[5] who was British, was born in a military camp in Shahjahanpur, a small town in north India.^[6] His mother, Edith Clarke,^[5] was Anglo-Indian.

His father taught English to the princesses of Jamnagar palace, and Ruskin and his sister Ellen lived there till he was six. Later, Ruskin's father joined the Roy