FRIENDS OF MY YOUTH

FRIENDS OF MY YOUTH By Ruskin Bond

Ruskin Bond is renowned for his distinctively direct and humorous writing. He has written numerous best-selling short stories, novellas, collections, essays, and children's books in addition to numerous poems and articles that have been published in a variety of journals and anthologies. For his debut book, The Room on the Roof, he received the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys Prize at the age of 23. He also received the Padma Shri honour in 1999, the Delhi government's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012, and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. Ruskin Bond was born in 1934 and raised in Jamnagar, Shimla, New Delhi, and Dehradun. He has lived his whole life in India, with the exception of three years spent in the UK. He currently resides in Landour, Mussoorie, with his adopted family.