Ruskin Bond’s Biographical Sketch Gulnaz Fatima Aligarh Muslim University, India
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Ruskin Bond’s Biographical Sketch
Gulnaz Fatima
Aligarh Muslim University, India
Ruskin Bond is a well known Indian writer in English. He has written more than hundred short-stories, six novels, three collection of verse and over thirty books for children. Bond has written two autobiographies. The first,
Scenes from a Writer’s Life, covers the first twenty-one years of his life and the second book, The Lamp is Lit, narrates when Bond returned to India after a two-year stay in England. Ruskin Bond received Sahitya Academy Award for his book Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra, 1992, and was honored with the title Padam Shree 1999, for his life time contribution to Indian literature in
English. He has been writing for the last fifty years in different genres of literature. Ruskin Bond was born on May 19, 1934, at Kasauli H.P. He is the eldest son of late Aubrey Alexander. His sister named Ellen was a little handicapped child. Ellen lived with her grandmother but Ruskin Bond grew up with her father in Jamnagar (Gujarat), Dehradoon and Shimla.
He had his primary education in the boarding school of Mussorie and
Shimla. His father had to go from one place to another due to his job and
Ruskin Bond also accompanied him. When Ruskin Bond was eight years old his mother Agnet Clark left him under the guardianship of his father. Bond’s relationship with his mother, Agnet Clark, seems to have been very distant.
He mentions her as young, pretty, and fun loving, but unfortunately, she did not provide the stability and affection of a mother that the young Bond needed. He claims that his mother frequently left home when he was small,
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Ruskin Bond’s Biographical Sketch
Gulnaz Fatima
Aligarh Muslim University, India
Ruskin Bond is a well known Indian writer in English. He has written more than hundred short-stories, six novels, three collection of verse and over thirty books for children. Bond has written two autobiographies. The first,
Scenes from a Writer’s Life, covers the first twenty-one years of his life and the second book, The Lamp is Lit, narrates when Bond returned to India after a two-year stay in England. Ruskin Bond received Sahitya Academy Award for his book Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra, 1992, and was honored with the title Padam Shree 1999, for his life time contribution to Indian literature in
English. He has been writing for the last fifty years in different genres of literature. Ruskin Bond was born on May 19, 1934, at Kasauli H.P. He is the eldest son of late Aubrey Alexander. His sister named Ellen was a little handicapped child. Ellen lived with her grandmother but Ruskin Bond grew up with her father in Jamnagar (Gujarat), Dehradoon and Shimla.
He had his primary education in the boarding school of Mussorie and
Shimla. His father had to go from one place to another due to his job and
Ruskin Bond also accompanied him. When Ruskin Bond was eight years old his mother Agnet Clark left him under the guardianship of his father. Bond’s relationship with his mother, Agnet Clark, seems to have been very distant.
He mentions her as young, pretty, and fun loving, but unfortunately, she did not provide the stability and affection of a mother that the young Bond needed. He claims that his mother frequently left home when he was small,
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References: 1. Bond, Ruskin. Scenes from a Writer 's Life: A Memoir. New Delhi: Penguin, 1997, p 2. Bond, Ruskin. Scenes from a Writer 's Life: A Memoir. New Delhi: Penguin, 1997, p craft . 1995, p. 23. 5. Bond, Ruskin. The Lamp Is Lit: Leaves from a Journal. New Delhi: Penguin, 1998, p.13. 6. Bond, Ruskin. Scenes from a Writer 's Life: A Memoir. New Delhi: Penguin, 1997, p