Rudyard Kipling

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Rudyard Kipling was a British author and poet best known for works such as "The Jungle Book," "Kim," and the poem "If—," and for his vivid portrayals of British imperial India.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf author
human
journalist
poet
short story writer
awardReceived Nobel Prize in Literature
burialPlace Poets' Corner
Westminster Abbey
causeOfDeath perforated duodenal ulcer
child Elsie Kipling
John Kipling
Josephine Kipling
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1865-12-30
dateOfDeath 1936-01-18
dateOfMarriage 1892-01-18
educatedAt United Services College
familyName Kipling
famousCharacterCreated Bagheera
Baloo
Kaa
Kimball O'Hara
Mowgli
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
father John Lockwood Kipling
fullName Joseph Rudyard Kipling
genre adventure fiction
children's literature
imperial literature
poetry
givenName Joseph
Rudyard
hasTheme British Empire
childhood and coming of age
colonial India
duty
soldiers and military life
stoicism
influenced George Orwell
Jorge Luis Borges
Neil Gaiman
T. S. Eliot
languageOfWorkOrName English
livedIn Lahore
London
Sussex
Vermont
mannerOfDeath disease
mother Alice Kipling
movement British imperial literature
Edwardian literature
Victorian literature
NobelPrizeInLiteratureYear 1907
notableAchievement first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature
youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature at the time
notableWork Barrack-Room Ballads
Captains Courageous
Gunga Din
If—
Just So Stories
Kim
Plain Tales from the Hills
Stalky & Co.
The Jungle Book
The Man Who Would Be King
The Second Jungle Book
occupation novelist
poet
short story writer
writer
placeOfBirth Bombay
Bombay Presidency
British India
placeOfDeath England
London
politicalView supporter of British imperialism
relative Stanley Baldwin
signatureWork If—
spouse Caroline Starr Balestier
uncle Edward Burne-Jones


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