A Cultural Exursion To... India Folktales! by Will

Rudyard Kipling

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Rudyard Kipling was a well known author for his great stories

including "The Jungle Book". Kipling's country of birth and origin

was India. He earned many awards for his stories and folklore.

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Authors

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Arundhati Roy

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She became famous from her well known story "The God of Small Things." It includes many quotes. She is a novelist and a social activist. She has earned awards like the Booker Prize, the Cultural Freedom Prize, and the Sydney Peace prize.

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Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth is known for his story "A Suitable Boy." He is a novelist, travel writer, poet, librettist, memoirist, and novelist. He has been awarded the Common Wealth Writers Prize and the WH Smith Literary Award.

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India

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Each of these authors came from India. To the left there is an image of India and with it are the names of areas that some of the authors grew up in or have been to before.

His Work

williamhg — 2014-11-11 16:00:44 UTC

For more of Vikram Seth's work go to-

http://www.poemhunter.com/vikram-seth/-

His Work

m_mcmurray2017 — 2014-11-11 16:11:29 UTC

For some of his work go to this website-

http://storynory.com/category/classic-authors-for-children/rudyard-kipling/

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Characters

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In these stories you will see that the main characters are animals most of the time. They are always the ones that teach you the moral of the story. So when you read the stories look out for it.