WRITER

Ruskin Bond

1934 - Today

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Ruskin Bond (born 19, May 1934) is an Indian author. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, published in 1956, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Bond has authored more than 500 short stories, essays, and novels which includes 69 books for children. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruskin Bond has received more than 7,031,460 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Ruskin Bond is the 5,849th most popular writer (down from 5,576th in 2019), the 763rd most popular biography from India (down from 705th in 2019) and the 111th most popular Indian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ruskin Bond ranks 5,849 out of 7,302Before him are Zoltán Ambrus, Colum McCann, Giorgio Faletti, Judy Blume, Qaysin Quli, and Ewa Lipska. After him are Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin, Dolores Redondo, Granius Licinianus, Margaret Mazzantini, Arthur Symons, and Xosé María Díaz Castro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Ruskin Bond ranks 461Before him are Peter McParland, Károly Wieland, Ion Panțuru, Timothy West, Jimmy Garrison, and Sylvia Syms. After him are Gerry Hitchens, Mark Strand, Hans Mild, Östen Warnerbring, John N. Bahcall, and István Csurka.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ruskin Bond ranks 763 out of 1,861Before him are Sunil Gavaskar (1949), Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), Raj Reddy (1937), Reita Faria (1943), and Chandramukhi Basu (1860). After him are Nanda (1939), Mehmood (1932), Sonal Mansingh (1944), Amit Shah (1964), Gurdial Singh (1933), and Shakti Kapoor (1952).

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Ruskin Bond ranks 111Before him are Anita Desai (1937), Ravindra Prabhat (1969), Javed Akhtar (1945), Nambi Narayanan (1941), Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), and Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907). After him are Gurdial Singh (1933), Bano Qudsia (1928), Ravindra Kelekar (1925), Vikram Seth (1952), Varsha Adalja (1940), and Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1944).