ABOUT THE AUTHOR “RUDYARD KIPLING”
Rudyard Kipling was born on 30th December 1865 in Bombay (now Mumbai) but educated in England at the United Services College, Westward Ho, Bideford. In 1882, he returned to India, where he worked for Anglo-Indian newspapers.
His literary career began with Departmental Ditties (1886), but subsequently he became chiefly known as a writer of short stories. He glorified in many of his works like Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) and Soldiers Three (1888), collections of short stories with roughly and affectionately drawn soldier portraits. His Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) were written for as much as about the common soldier. In 1894, there appeared his The Jungle Book, which became a children’s classic all over the world.
Other works include The Second Jungle Book (1895), The Seven Seas (1896), Captains Courageous (1897), The Day’s Work (1898), Stalky & Co. (1899), Just So Stories (1902), Traffics and Discoveries (1904), Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906), and Actions and Reactions (1909). During the First World War, Kipling wrote some propaganda books. His collected poems appeared in 1933.
Kipling was the recipient of many honorary degrees and other awards. In 1926, he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature. Kipling won the coveted Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907.
Presented by: Milan Afanta
From: The Jungle Book
