In his ninetieth year, India’s best loved writer, Ruskin Bond, looks back on his rich and varied life as an author. He talks about the experiences that have shaped him, the events that inspired his most famous books and stories, and how the mountains, solitude, and Pari Tibba, Fairy Hill (that he can see from his window) have influenced his work. A book of wisdom, beauty, calm, and wonder.
Ruskin Bond is the author of several bestselling novels and collections of short stories, essays and poems. These include: The Room on the Roof (winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); A Flight of Pigeons; The Night Train at Deoli; Time Stops at Shamli; Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award); Angry River; The Blue Umbrella; Delhi is Not Far; Rain in the Mountains; Tigers for Dinner; Tales of Fosterganj; A Gathering of Friends; Upon an Old Wall Dreaming; Small Towns, Big Stories; Unhurried Tales; A Gallery of Rascals; Rhododendrons in the Mist; Miracle at Happy Bazaar (winner of Kalinga Literary Festival Children’s Book of the Year 2021); and It’s a Wonderful Life.
Ruskin Bond was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1999, a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Delhi government in 2012, and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. He has been selected for the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Fellowship 2021.
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