title: The Writer on the Hill: The Very Best of Ruskin Bond
author:  Ruskin Bond 
description: Ruskin Bond's first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novels (including Vagrants in the Valley, A Flight of Pigeons and Delhi Is Not Far), essays, poems and children's books, many of which have been published by Penguin India. He has also written over 500 short stories and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999.
zlib_text: Children of India
  Ruskin Bond has been writing for over sixty years, and now has
  over 1 20 titles in print—novels, collections of short stories, poetry,
  essays, anthologies and books for children. His first novel, The
  R oom on the R oof , received the prestigious J ohn Llewellyn Rhys
  Prize in 1 9 5 7 . He has also received the Padma Shri (1 9 9 9 ), the
  Padma Bhushan (201 4 ) and two awards from Sahitya Akademi—
  one for his short stories and another for his writings for children. In
  201 2, the Delhi government gave him its Lifetime Achievement
  Award.
  Born in 1 9 3 4 , Ruskin Bond grew up in J amnagar, Shimla, New
  Delhi and Dehradun. Apart from three years in the UK, he has spent
  all his life in India, and now lives in Mussoorie with his adopted
  family.
  
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  Copyright ©  Ruskin Bond 201 7
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the
  product of the auth