Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond's first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then, he has written several novels, including Vagrants in the Valley, A Flight of Pigeons, and Delhi Is Not Far, essays, poems, and children's books, many of which have been published by Penguin India.
He has also written over five hundred short stories and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999
Ruskin Bond's first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Sin
