English writer Rudyard Kipling not only invented the famous character Mowgli, but also lived an extremely interesting, eventful life. The writer’s creative and life path was not always smooth, he, without giving up, went to his goal, having achieved it and thereby perpetuating his name.
The future English writer was born in India, which at that time was a colony of Great Britain. He first came to the UK at the age of 6 when his parents sent him to study there. He received his unusual name in honor of Lake Rudyard, on the shores of which his parents engaged. Rudyard Kipling became the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Having lived most of his life in England and in the USA, Kipling always considered India, where he was born, to be his home. He achieved popularity and fame by the age of 23, after the publication of his first stories. The English royal house intended to give Kipling a knighthood, but the writer rejected it. Most of his life the writer spent in solitude, minimizing contact with the outside world. In addition to prose, Rudyard Kipling wrote poems and published several relatively popular collections.
Once one of the English newspapers mistakenly published the news of the death of Kipling. In response, the writer sent a letter to the newspaper’s editorial office asking him to remove him from the list of newspaper subscribers, since, as it turned out, he was dead. Rudyard Kipling’s fairy tales were composed by him for his own children and niece. Throughout his life, the writer wrote only in black ink. The reason for such principled is still not clear. Kipling wore glasses all his life, as his eyesight was rather mediocre. The son of a writer went missing on the fronts of the First World War. In the original “The Jungle Book” about Mowgli Panther Bagheera – male. When translating the book into Russian, the gender “changed”. Kipling’s most famous work, Kim, was inspired by India, which he loved until the end of his life.
