Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865, Bombay – 18 January 1936, London) was an English writer, poet, and novelist.

His most notable works include "The Jungle Book," "Kim," and the poem "Recessional." In 1907, Kipling became the first English author to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. That same year, he received honors from the universities of Paris, Strasbourg, Athens, and Toronto. He was also awarded honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Durham. (30.12.1865, India, Bombay – 18.01.1936, United Kingdom, London) – English writer. In his works, Kipling depicted the purity of conscience, moral qualities, and honest labor of ordinary people and soldiers with sincerity.

His poetry collections "Barrack-Room Ballads" (1892), "The Seven Seas" (1896), and "The Five Nations" (1903), as well as the short story collections "The Jungle Book" (1894) and "The Second Jungle Book" (1895), and novels like "The Light That Failed" (1890) and "Kim" (1901) are widely known. The tales of Mowgli, a boy raised among wild animals in "The Jungle Book" (1894) and "The Second Jungle Book" (1895), have become beloved children's classics. Nobel Prize laureate (1907).

Kipling's works have been published in Kazakh under the titles "Fairy Tales" (1968) and "Mowgli" (1983; translated by R. Rakhymbekov). Composer A. Serkebayev wrote a rock-opera ballet titled "Mowgli – My Brother" (1980, libretto by D. Nakyipov). Kipling's language, rich in comparisons, made a significant contribution to the English lexicon.