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Ruskin Bond is a famous author and a poet, of an English descent, born in India on 19 May 1934 in Kasauli, Punjab, British India. He has written more than five hundered short stories, novels and essays but is best known for promoting children’s literature in India. His famous novel ‘The Blue Umbrella’ was made into a Hindi film, which was awarded the National Film Award for Best Children's Film, in 2007. Born as a son to a British couple during the colonial rule in India, he spent his early childhood in Jamnagar and Shimla. Toubled by his parents’ separation and his father’s death, he sought solace in reading and writing, and wrote one of his first short stories  ‘Untouchable’ at the age of 16 in 1951.  He went to the Bishop Cotton School in Shimla,and graduated in 1950. He loved reading and was especially influenced by the works of T. E. Lawrence, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte and Rudyard Kipling. After graduating from high school he went to the U.K. in search of better prospects. While in London he began working on his first novel, ‘The Room on the Roof’. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1957), awarded to a British Commonwealth writer under 30. After he started earning through his writing, he returned to India in Dehradun. He spent the next few years earning his living as a freelance writer, penning short stories and poems for newspapers and magazines. In 1963, he went to live in Mussoorie where he furthered his writing career. After the success of the story "the Blue Umbrella", he was approached by Penguin Books in 1980, with whom he published several collections of his work, helping establish him as a popular author in India. Ruskin Bond received the Sahitya Academy Award in 1992 for ‘Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra’. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014. Currently Ruskin lives in Dehradun with his adopted family.
 

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Ruskin Bond is a famous author and a poet, of an English descent, born in India on 19 May 1934 in Kasauli, Punjab, British India. He has written more than five hundered short stories, novels and essays but is best known for promoting children’s literature in India. His famous novel ‘The Blue Umbrella’ was made into a Hindi film, which was awarded the National Film Award for Best Children's Film, in 2007. Born as a son to a British couple during the colonial rule in India, he spent his early childhood in Jamnagar and Shimla. Toubled by his parents’ separation and his father’s death, he sought solace in reading and writing, and wrote one of his first short stories  ‘Untouchable’ at the age of 16 in 1951.  He went to the Bishop Cotton School in Shimla,and graduated in 1950. He loved reading and was especially influenced by the works of T. E. Lawrence, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte and Rudyard Kipling. After graduating from high school he went to the U.K. in search of better prospects. While in London he began working on his first novel, ‘The Room on the Roof’. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1957), awarded to a British Commonwealth writer under 30. After he started earning through his writing, he returned to India in Dehradun. He spent the next few years earning his living as a freelance writer, penning short stories and poems for newspapers and magazines. In 1963, he went to live in Mussoorie where he furthered his writing career. After the success of the story "the Blue Umbrella", he was approached by Penguin Books in 1980, with whom he published several collections of his work, helping establish him as a popular author in India. Ruskin Bond received the Sahitya Academy Award in 1992 for ‘Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra’. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014. Currently Ruskin lives in Dehradun with his adopted family. 

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Ruskin bond is a good man

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Ruskin bond is an eminent contempory indian writer of britishdecent who was awarded with sahitya akademi award to honur his work in lterature.He was born on may 19 1934 in kasuli india he was the son of edith karke and aubrey bond his father served in  a royal air force.He completed his early school from bishop cotton school shimla.During his school years he won serval writing competitions.He completeed his gradution and at the age of 20 he became good writer.At the age of 17 in london he wrote his first novel 'The roon on the roof' he was rewarded for his novel he has written many essays, novel,articles,and autobiographies he has written 300 story books essays and novel some of other notable works include blue umbrella,A fight of pigeons and funny side up 

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