Today is the birthday of the great Indian author Ruskin Bond. He is a celebrated author of over 300 short stories, essays, novellas and more than 30 books for children and also two volumes of his autobiography.Two of his books - The Blue Umbrella and Sussana's Seven Husbands - have been adapted into Bollywood films - The Blue Umbrella and 7 Khoon Maaf, both directed by Vishal Bhardwaj.
Ruskin Bond was born on 19 May, 1934 in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh in India. He has lived in London since the 1960s, having previously also lived, as a child and as a young man, in Shimla, Jamnagar, Mussoorie, Dehradun and London.
Most of Bond's writings show a very strong influence from the social life in the hill stations at the foothills of the Himalayas, where he spent his childhood. His first novel, "The Room On the Roof", was written when he was 17 and published when he was 21. It was partly based on his experiences at Dehradun, in his small rented room on the roof, and his friends. The "Room On the Roof" brought him the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957.
Some of his famous works:
- Delhi Is Not Far
- Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra
- A Flight Of Pigeons
- Strangers In The Night
- The Eyes Have It (short story)
- Angry River
Awards
* 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.
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