Английский писатель Киплинг

Joseph Kipling

Done by: Julia Mangusheva and Maria Martynova

Form: 6-A

2016

Joseph Rudyard Kipling is an English writer, poet and novelist.

• . His best works are the «Jungle Book», «Kim», «Rikki-Tikki-Tavi» as well as numerous poems. In 1907, Kipling became the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the same year, he received awards from universities.

• Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, in British India, in the family of John Lockwood Kipling and Alice Kipling . His father was a headmaster in a local school . He got his name in honor of the English lake Rudyard . The early years in India were very happy for the future writer. But at the age of 5 Kipling, along with his 3-year-old sister was sent to a boarding house in England .

• He worked as a journalist in a newspaper in India where he was attached by his father .

• Later he went to London and married the sister of his friend . The young coupele was poor and they decided to move to the USA .

• Kipling continued his literary activity until the early 1930s, although success was accompanied him less and less. Since 1915, the writer suffered from gastritis. Rudyard Kipling died in January 18, 1936 in London. He was buried in Westminster Abbey in London.

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