Творчество Р.Киплинга

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Childhood He is chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children. He was born in Bombay, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old.

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Famous books Kipling is best known for his works of fiction, including The Jungle Book (a collection of stories which includes “Rikky-Tikky-Tavi"), Just So Stories (1902), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), many short stories, including “The Man Who Would Be King" (1888); and his poems, including “Mandalay" (1890), “Gunga Din" (1890), “The Gods Of The Copybook Headings" (1919), “The White Man’s Burden" (1899), and “If — " (1910).

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In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and to date he remains its youngest recipient . Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him continued for much of the 20th century. Kipling is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with.