Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 81-291-0144-0 |
ISBN-13 | 978-8129101440 |
No of pages | 135 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | Rupa & Co |
Published Date | 01 Jan 2003 |
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 Akademie award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademie, 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 Landor near Mussoorie.
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The Rupa Book of Ruskin Bond's Himalayan Tales is a collection of short stories, essays and poems set in the Indian Himalayas. With his keen spirit of observation as he sets his eyes upon people, places and wildlife,
Ruskin Bind deftly captures the adventure and joy of life in the hills. With this compelling blend of fiction and non-fiction, Ruskin Bond treats us to another endearing Rupa collection.