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- 2. Introduction Born: 30 December 1865. Bombay, British India. Died: 18 January 1936. (aged 70) London, England. Resting place: Poets’ Corner, Wetminster Abbey, London. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Nationality: British. Genre: Short story, novel, children's literature, poetry, travel literature, science fiction. Notable awards: Nobel Prize in Literature 1907.
- 3. Biography (1865-1936) His father was an artist and teacher. In 1870, Kipling was taken back to England to stay with a foster family in Southsea and then to go to boarding school in Devon. In 1882, he returned to India and worked as a journalist, writing poetry and fiction in his spare time. In 1889 Kipling went to live in London. In 1892, Kipling married Caroline Balestier and the couple moved to Vermont in the United States. Their two daughters were born there. In 1896, a fight with his wife's family incited Kipling to move back to England and he ended with his own family in Sussex. His son John was born in 1897.
- 4. Biography (1865-1936) His daughter Josephine died of pneumonia when she was six. In 1907, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first English author to be so honoured. In 1902, Kipling bought a 17th century house called Bateman's in East Sussex where he lived for the rest of his life. He also travelled a lot. In 1915, his son, John, died in action while serving with the Irish Guards in the Battle of Loos during World War One. Kipling had great difficulty to accept his son's death. He also joined the Imperial War Graves Commission and selected the biblical phrase inscribed on many British war memorials: 'Their Name Liveth For Evermore'.
- 5. Notable works The Jungle Book Just So Stories Kim Captains Courageous "If—” "Gunga Din” "The White Man's Burden" The Jungle Book (Children’s book, 1894) Just So Stories (Children’s book,1902)
- 6. Notable works Kim (novel, 1901) Captains Courageous (novel, 1897) "If—” (poem, 1895) "The White Man's Burden” (poem, 1899) "Gunga Din” (poem, 1892)