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Rudyard Kipling

English writer and poet (1865-1936) · United Kingdom · Writers · Died at 70

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He gave the world Mowgli, "If - ", and the phrase "white man's burden" - which tells you everything about why Rudyard Kipling still starts arguments a century after his death.

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1936Died18 January 19361922Rector of the University of St AndrewsOffice1922-19251921Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of ParisAwardHonorary Doctorate from the University of StrasbourgAward1907Nobel Prize in LiteratureAward1865Born30 December 1865

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Awards

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Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Paris1921
Honorary Doctorate from the University of Strasbourg1921
Nobel Prize in Literature1907
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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Born in British India in 1865, Kipling turned childhood memory and colonial landscape into the raw material of his fiction. The Jungle Books arrived in the 1890s, then Kim, the Just So Stories, and poems like "Mandalay" and "Gunga Din" that made him the most popular writer in Britain by the century's turn. In 1907 he won the Nobel Prize at 41, the youngest laureate and the first in English - Henry James called him "the most complete man of genius" he'd ever known. He turned down the Poet Laureateship and a knighthood more than once. When he died in 1936 they buried him in Westminster Abbey, but his reputation fractured along the fault line of empire: incomparable storyteller on one side, imperial apologist on the other, the argument still live.

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United Kingdom
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deceased
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Lived 1865 to 1936 · aged 70

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