Ruskin Bond

Ruskin Bond is an Indian author. Most of Bond’s works are influenced by life in the hill stations in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he spent his childhood. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, published in 1956, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Bond has authored more than 500 short stories, essays, and novels which includes 69 books for children. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.