Q. What was Ruskin Bond's first published novel?
Answer:
Room on the Roof
Notes: Ruskin Bond's first novel, "The Room on the Roof," was published in 1956. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957 for young Commonwealth writers. The book is about Rusty, an orphaned Anglo-Indian boy, and marked the beginning of Bond's career as a children's literature author.