Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond (b. 1934) was born in Himachal Pradesh and grew up among the mountains of northern India in Shimla and Dehradun.
Though he is quite well-known as a writer of popular books for children, he prefers the seclusion of the sleepy foothills of the Himalayas. His books and poems have a mellow and haunting aura. For Bond, life is not about dramatic and momentous incidents, but of tranquility lost and regained, of love and romance and nature, where time is the catalyst of change.
Ruskin Bond has won the Sahitya Akademi award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize.
The list below consists of selected works only. Ruskin Bond has also written several collections of short stories, poems, essays and travelogues which are not listed here.
Works
- The Room on the Roof
- Delhi is not Far
- The Sensualist
- Vagrants in the Valley
- A Flight of Pigeons
- Cherry Tree
- The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories
- Panther’s Moon and Other Stories
- The Road to the Bazaar
- Time Stops At Shamli
- Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra
- The Blue Umbrella
- Funny Side Up