Art of Literature

1. RUSKIN BOND
S. SHERLINE MAHIBA

3. FAMOUS FOR
• Eminent
• Contemporary Indian writer
• Prolific author
• Sagithya academy award

4. WRITING STYLE…
• Nature
• Ordinary people’s and their daily lives
• Simple
• Lucid
• Engaging style

5. ABOUT RUSKIN BOND
• May 19,1934
• Indian author of British descent
• Promoting children’s literature in India
• More than 500 essays, short stories, novels

6. EARLY LIFE
• Kasaulis,Punjab, India
• Edith Clarke andAubrey Bond
• Bishop cotton school, shimla
• Reading literature
• Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Rudyard Kipling .
• “Untouchable“
• “The Room On The Roof“ – first novel (U.K)

7. CAREER
• Photo studio
• Looking for publishers
• Earning money for writing
• Short stories for news papers and magazines
• 1980 – “The Blue Umbrella “
• Essays, autobiographies, non-fiction, romantic, fiction.
• Autobiography – “The lamp is lit” ,“Scenes from a writers life”
• Films – “ susanna’s seven husbands” and“The blue umbrella “

8. AWARDSANDACHIEVEMENTS
• 1957 - John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
• 1992 - SagityaAcademy Award ( OurTrees Still Grow In Dehra)
• 1999 - Padma ShriAward
• 2014 - Padma BhushanAward
• 2017 - LifeTimeAchievementAward

9. PERSONAL LIFE
• Never got married
• 85 years
• Mussoorie, Himachal Pradesh

10. RUSTY
• Popular fictional character
• Teenagers perspective
• Confusions about life, relationships, happiness, love.

11. THANKYOU