Rudyard Kipling

Biography

Born in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India, the son of John Lockwood Kipling, a museum director and author and illustrator. This was at the height of the "British Raj", so he was brought up by Indian nurses ("ayahs"), who taught him something of the beliefs and tongues of India. He was sent "home" to England at the age of six to live with a foster mother, who treated him very cruelly.

Awards & recognition

• ★Lektorix · 2009
• ★doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris · 1921
• ★honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg · 1921
• ★Nobel Prize in Literature · 1907
• ★Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature