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.
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  Dragon in the Tunnel
  
  
  
  
  
  Ruskin Bond
  
  
  has been writing for over sixty years, and now has over 120 titles in
  print—novels, collections of short stories, poetry, essays, anthologies and
  books for children. His first novel, The Room on the Roof
  
  
  , received the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957. He has also
  received the Padma Shri (1999), the Padma Bhushan (2014) and two awards from
  Sahitya Akademi—one for his short stories and another for his writings for
  children. In 2012, the Delhi government gave him its Lifetime Achievement
  Award.
  
  
  
  
  
  Born in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar, 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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  Published by
  
  
  Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd 2017
  
  
  7/16, Ansari Road, Daryaganj
  
  
  New Delhi 110002
  
  
  Sales centres:
  
  
  Allahabad Bengaluru Chennai
  
  
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