Ruskin Bond is the author of several bestselling novels and collections of short stories, essays, and poems. These include: The Hoopoe on the Lawn; The Hill of Enchantment; The Room on the Roof (winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); A Flight of Pigeons; The Night Train at Deoli; Time Stops at Shamli; Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award); Angry River; The Blue Umbrella; Delhi Is Not Far; Rain in the Mountains; Tigers for Dinner; Tales of Fosterganj; A Gathering of Friends; Upon an Old Wall Dreaming; Small Towns, Big Stories; Unhurried Tales; A Gallery of Rascals; Rhododendrons in the Mist; Miracle at Happy Bazaar (winner of the Kalinga Literary Festival Children’s Book of the Year, 2021); It’s a Wonderful Life; The Shadow on the Wall; Song of the Forest; The Last Tiger; The Gold Collection; and The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.
He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999, a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Delhi government in 2012, the Padma Bhushan in 2014, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2021, and the Ramnath Goenka Sahithya Samman Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024.
