Ruskin Bond I Rumer Godden

Ruskin Bond is India?s best-known living author. He has written over a hundred books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Among them are The Room on the Roof, A Flight of Pigeons, Rain in the Mountains, A Book of Simple Living and Lone Fox Dancing. He received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1956, the Padma Shri in 1999, the Padma Bhushan in 2014 and the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2024. He lives in Landour, Mussoorie with his adopted family.

Rumer Godden (1907-1998) was an acclaimed author of over sixty books for adults and children. Born in England, she grew up in Narayanganj, India and later spent some years in Calcutta and Kashmir. Many of her novels, including Black Narcissus and The River, were made into movies. Some of her other popular works are Two Under the Indian Sun (co-written with sister Jon Godden), A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep, A House with Four Rooms and Gulbadan.