Escape from Java: and Other Tales of Danger - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143331345 ISBN 13: 9780143331346

Publisher: Puffin Books, India

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Born in Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar (Gujarat), Dehra Dun, New Delhi and Simla. His 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 over three hundred short stories, essays and novellas (including Vagrants in the Valley, A Flight of Pigeons and Delhi Is Not Far), and more than fifty books for children. He has also written numerous 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, and the Delhi government s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi s Bal Sahitya Puraskar for his total contribution to children s literature in 2013 and honoured with the Padma Bhushan in 2014.

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• Publisher: Puffin Books, India
• ISBN 10: 0143331345
• ISBN 13: 9780143331346
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English