Rudyard Kipling || Journalist, Short story writer, Poet, and the Novelist 

            He was an English, journalist, short story writer, poet, and novelist. Complete name was Joseph Rudyard Kipling who was born on 30th December 1865, in Bombay India and Died on 18 January 1936(aged 70) in London, England. His Father was John Lockwood Kipling, a sculptor and pottery designer who was the principal and professor of architectural sculpture at newly founded sir Jamesetjee jeejabhoy school of art in Bombay. Mother: Alice Kipling who was a poet was taken to England when he was six and was left for five years at a foster home in the south sea.

            In January 1878 Kipling was admitted to the united services school) at westward ho! Kipling didn't have the academic ability to get into oxford university on a scholarship. He sailed for India on 20 September 1882 and arrived in Bombay on 18 October. In 1883, Kipling worked as an assistant editor for the local newspaper. In the summer of 1883 Kipling visited Shimla, India. In 1886, he published his first collection verse departmental ditties. His first prose collection " plain tales from the hills " published in Calcutta in January 1888. Kipling was discharged from the pioneer in early 1889 after a dispute. On 18 January 1892, Kipling married Caroline Balestier, the sister of Wolcott.

            Their first child Josephine was born on 29th December 1892. In 1894 he wrote his famous novel " Kim". In 1902 Kipling bought a house at Burwash Sussex which remained his home until death. In 1904 he wrote his short story " the army of a dream ". In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel prize for literature. Kipling's son John was killed in action at the battle of loose in September 1915. On the night of 12 January 1936, he suffered a hemorrhage in his small intestine. He underwent surgery but died at a middle sex hospital less than a week later on 18 January 1936. His children's stories remain popular after his death and his jungle book made into several films.

            He was the first English writer to receive the noble prize. For literature. He also won the gold medal of the royal society of literature in 1926. Important short stories (books)

Many inventions (1893)

The jungle book (1894)

The seven seas (1896) poetry

The day’s work (1898)

A fleet in being (1898)

Just so stories for little children (1902)

 

By: Dawood Baloch

The writer is a student professional Class at Ruzhn English Language Center Bugh Meeri

Turbat Kech Balochistan