farah ashraf |
A British writer and poet, born in Mumbai, British India, then part of the British Empire, to parents Alice Kipling and Lockwood Kipling. He was a pottery designer and sculptor, and a schoolmaster and professor of architectural sculpture at the School of Arts and Industry in Mumbai, founded by Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy. His literary works include The Man Who Would Be King in 1888, The Jungle Book in 1894, and Kim in 1901. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907, becoming the youngest laureate of the award and the first English-language writer to receive it.
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