Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, novelist and story writer of the late Victorian period.
Rudyard Kipling, Under The Deodars
Profile
- Birth Name: Joseph Rudyard Kipling
- Date of Birth: December 30, 1865
- Place of Birth: Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
- Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
- Death: January 18, 1936
- Place of Death: Middlesex Hospital, London, England
- Cause of Death: Duodenal ulcer
- Ethnicity: White
- Nationality: British
- Place of Burial: Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, London
- Gravestone Inscription:
“ KIPLING. BORN 30th DEC. 1865
DIED 18th JAN. 1936.”
- Father: John Lockwood Kipling
- Mother: Alice Kipling (née MacDonald)
- Siblings:
- Sister-Alice Kipling (1868–1948)
- Brother-John Kipling (1870–1870)
- Sexual Orientation: Straight
- Spouse: Caroline Starr Balestier (m. 1892) (1862–1939)
- Children:
- Daughter-Elsie Kipling (1896–1976)
- Daughter-Josephine Kipling (1892–1899)
- Son-John Kipling (1897–1915)
- Alma Mater: United Services College
- Known for: his brilliant storytelling capability, reflected especially in his tale of children
- Rudyard Kipling was criticized for: his celebration of British imperialism
- Rudyard Kipling was influenced by: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 –1894), H. Rider Haggard (1856 –1925), Joel Chandler Harris (1848 –1908), and Ibn Tufail (c. 1105 – 1185).
- Kipling’s Works Inspired: NA
Notable Awards
- Nobel Prize in literature (1907)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature (1926)
Quotes
“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”Rudyard Kipling, Under The Deodars
Did You Know?
- Rudyard Kipling was the eldest child to John Lockwood Kipling and Alice Kipling.
- His father was an art teacher, illustrator and museum curator.
- Kipling was the first to use Cockney dialect in serious poetry.
- Kipling was named after the Rudyard Lake in Rudyard, Staffordshire, England.
- Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907.
- Kipling was the first English to receive the prestigious Nobel Prize.
- Kipling is the youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature to date.
- His Nobel Prize citation reads: “in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author”.
- Kipling’s first collection of poetry Departmental Ditties was published in 1886.
- His first collection of prose Plain Tales from the Hills was published in 1888 in Calcutta.
- The ashes of Kipling were buried in Poets' Corner next to the graves of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy.
- In 1892, Rudyard Kipling married Caroline Starr Balestier.
- Kipling's daughter Josephine died from influenza at the age of six.
- His son, John was killed at the Battle of Loos while serving with the British Army during the First World War.
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