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Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work.

Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".

Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers Henry James said, "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded for the British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood, but declined both. Following his death in 1936, his ashes were interred at Poets' Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey.

Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed with the political and social climate of the age. The contrasting views of him continued for much of the 20th century. George Orwell saw Kipling as "a jingo imperialist", who was "morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting". Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "[Kipling] is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with."

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DEN BRITISKE FORFATTER OG NOBELPRISTAGER Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) har skrevet mesterværker som Junglebogen og Kim, der er at finde i de flestes bogreoler. Hans universer er farverige, men samtidig klæber et anderledes broget eftermæle til ham. Han betragtes ofte som fortaler for en eurocentrisme, man i dag er skeptisk over for. I personen Kipling kombineres det hjertevindende med det dybt kontroversielle, og hans selvbiografi er en fascinerende læseoplevelse. Lidt om mig selv er den original fortællers historie om sit eget liv. Rudyard Kipling blev født i Indien, det britiske imperiums kronjuvel, af britiske forældre og voksede op på den anden side af jorden. Han blev sendt til England for at gå på kostskole, før han som 17-årig vendte tilbage til Indien som journalist og håbefuld forfatter. Da han var parat, vendte han hjem til Vesten og en ventende berømmelse. Kiplings selvbiografi skildrer en ydmyg forfatters syn på sig selv, sin omverden og sin kunst. Samtidig er den et eksempel på det britiske imperiums til tider mindre ydmyge syn på resten af verden i starten af det 19. århundrede.
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