![]() His first novel, "The Room on the Roof", written when he was seventeen, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. But there were many good things that couldn't get into it and there have been many stories, essays, poems and memories written in recent years, from which a selection of the best' can easily be made," writes Bond in the introduction of the book.īond, born in Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) and grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun, New Delhi and Shimla, is the recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award, Sahitya Akademi''s Bal Sahitya Puraskar, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan among other prestigious awards. "PRHI brought out 'The Best of Ruskin Bond', and I am grateful to see (from my royalty statements) that it is still one of the most popular titles. ![]() Be it the dreams of his childhood or anecdotes of Rusty and his friends, the Ripley-Bean mysteries or Ruskin Bond's days in India, accounts of his life with his father or his adventures in Jersey and London, this book is full of beauty and joy - the two things Bond's writing is most famous for.
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