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From: Sunday Mail, Kuala Lumpur
Date: 20031109
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) RUDYARD Kipling, short-story writer, novelist and poet, was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His most popular works include The Jungle Book (1894), with such unforgettable characters as Mowgli, Baloo, and Bagheera. The book was adapted for the screen by Zoltan Korda and Andr de Toth in 1942. Walt Disney's cartoon version was produced in the 1960s.

He was born in Bombay on December 30, 1865, and educated in England at the United Services College at Westward Ho, near Bideford. In 1882, he returned to India and joined his parents ...

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