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Jan 16, 2019 · Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a tireless experimenter with the short story form, a novelist, a writer who could entertain children and adults alike with such books as The Jungle Book, Plain Tales from the Hills, The Just So Stories, Puck of Pook’s Hill, and countless others.
1865–1936. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Rudyard Kipling is one of the best-known of the late Victorian poets and story-tellers. Although he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907, his political views, which grew more toxic as he aged, have long made him critically unpopular.
Rudyard Kipling - Poet, Novelist, Nobel Prize: Kipling’s poems and stories were extraordinarily popular in the late 19th and early 20th century, but after World War I his reputation as a serious writer suffered through his being widely viewed as a jingoistic imperialist.
Kipling was the poet of the British Empire and its yeoman, the common soldier, whom he glorified in many of his works, in particular Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) and Soldiers Three (1888), collections of short stories with roughly and affectionately drawn soldier portraits.
Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Rudyard Kipling. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1907. Born: 30 December 1865, Bombay, British India (now Mumbai, India) Died: 18 January 1936, London, United Kingdom. Residence at the time of the award: United Kingdom.
Rudyard Kipling, (born Dec. 30, 1865, Bombay, India—died Jan. 18, 1936, London, Eng.), Indian-born British novelist, short-story writer, and poet. The son of a museum curator, he was reared in England but returned to India as a journalist.
RUDYARD KIPLING was born in Bombay on December 30th 1865, son of John Lockwood Kipling, an artist and teacher of architectural sculpture, and his wife Alice.
