Kipling was awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. The one thing that was never possible, if one had read him at all, was to forget him. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English writer chiefly known for his works on the British rule in India.įive days after Rudyard Kipling’s death on 18 January 1936, George Orwell published a short essay in the New English Weekly as an obituary or as a sort of tribute to the “household god” with whom he had grown up:įor my own part, I worshipped Kipling at thirteen, loathed him at seventeen, enjoyed him at twenty-five and now again rather admire him. Kipling’s parents considered themselves Anglo-Indians and the complex issue of identity and nationality was a prominent feature in his works as the writer himself wrote in his autobiography. Kipling was named after the Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire, England which his parents loved as a place of beauty. His mother was a lively woman and his father was a sculptor and pottery designer who went on become the Principal of Architectural sculpture at Sir Jamestjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in Bombay. In India, he was born in Bombay, presently called Mumbai to a British Family on 30 December 1865 to Alice Kipling and John Lockwood Kipling. He was born in India and moved with his family to England when he was five years old. Kipling lived from December 30, 1865, to January 18, 1936.
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