Ruskin Bond is a British-born Indian author. Aubrey Alexander Bond, his father, was a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer stationed in India. In Shimla, he attended Bishop Cotton School. In 1957, his first novel, The Room on the Roof, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 1992, he received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel in English, Our Trees Still Grow in the Dehra. Bond has written hundreds of short stories, essays, novels, and children's books. In 1999, he was awarded the Padma Shri, and in 2014, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan. He lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his adopted family.
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