Ruskin Bond

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Ruskin Bond (born May 19, 1934 in Kasauli , Himachal Pradesh ) is an Indian writer of Anglo-Indian descent.

Life

Bond's father was Scottish but was born in India and his mother was Anglo-Indian. After his parents' divorce and the early death of his father, Ruskin Bond grew up partly with his grandparents in Dehradun and partly in boarding schools. After India gained independence in 1947, Bond's grandparents and other relatives emigrated to England. The mother, now married to an Indian, stayed with her son in the country.

After leaving school, Bond spent four years in England. In London, at the age of seventeen, he began his first novel, The Room on the Roof , the strongly autobiographical story of the orphaned young Anglo-Indian Rusty, who escapes his overstrict foster father, a British missionary, and meets a family that allows him to meet to set up a cozy room in a room on the flat roof of your house. With the advance payment Bond received for this book, he bought a boat ticket to Bombay and returned to India. For several years he worked as a journalist in Dehradun and New Delhi . Since 1963 he has lived as a freelance writer in Mussoorie .

Ruskin Bond's work includes novels, short stories, lengthy narratives, essays, travelogues and books for young people. His short stories are particularly popular in India and have been published several times. His story A Flight of Pigeons , published in 1975, was filmed by Shyam Benegal in 1978 under the title Junoon (“Madness”) and went down as a classic in Hindi film history . Bond was awarded the Sahitya Akademi (Literature Academy ) Prize for English Literature in India in 1992 for the book Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra . In 1999 he received the state award Padma Shri for his contributions to youth literature .

Works (selection)

  • 1956: The Room on the Roof (novel)
  • 1960: Delhi is not Far (novel)
  • 1975: A Flight of Pigeons ( short story)
  • 1983: Let the Tigers Live (Drama)
  • 1988: The Night Train at Deoli and other Stories (short stories)
  • 1989: Time Stops At Shamli and other Stories (short stories)
  • 1991: Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (memories of youth)
  • 1992: Strange Men, Strange Places (sketches about Europeans in India from the 17th to 19th centuries)
  • 1992: All Roads lead to Ganga (travelogues)
  • 1995: Binya's Blue Umbrella ( short story)
  • 1996: Strangers in the Night (2 novellas)
  • 1997: Scenes from a Writer's Life (Memories)
  • 1998: The Lamp is Lit (essays and autobiographical sketches)
  • 2006: Tales of the open Road (travelogues)
  • 2012: Maharani (novel)

In German translation

  • The road to the bazaar . Hamburg 1958 (original title: The Room on the Roof , translated by Johannes Piron; autobiographical novel)
  • A flock of pigeons . Draupadi, Heidelberg 2010 (English: A Flight of Pigeons . Translated by Reinhold Schein , historical story from the time of the Sepoy uprising in 1857/58).
  • Stories from the heart of India . Klagenfurt / Vienna 2013, selected and translated from English by Reinhold Schein

Film adaptations

  • 1978: Junoon (Hindi film based on A Flight of Pigeons )
  • 2005: The Blue Umbrella (children's film based on the story Binya's Blue Umbrella )
  • 2011: 7 Khoon Maaf (Hindi film based on the short story Susanna's Seven Husbands )

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personal data
SURNAME Bond, Ruskin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Indian writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Kasauli , India