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Calcutta, India |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Vikram Seth (pronounced sayt), born June 20, 1952 is an Indian novelist and poet.
Background
Seth was born and raised in Kolkata. His father Prem was a shoe company executive. His mother, Leila, was the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court as well as the first woman to become Chief Justice of a provincial High Court.
He was educated at The Doon School and Tonbridge School and read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) as an undergraduate at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
He next enrolled at Stanford University where he has stated that he spent "11 years (from 1975 to 1986) not getting an economics Ph.D." From 1977-78 he went to Tibet and China on a Stegner Fellowship where he studied classical Chinese poetry at Nanjing University .
An interview (in the year 2005) in the Australian magazine Good Weekend detailed that Seth had studied several languages, including Welsh, German and Mandarin Chinese, in addition to Hindi and English.
He currently lives in Salisbury, England.
Writing
Seth is best known for his novels. The first of these, The Golden Gate (1986), is a novel in verse about the lives of a number of young professionals in San Francisco. The novel is written entirely in rhyming tetrameter sonnets after the style established by Aleksandr Pushkin. After The Golden Gate was published, Seth began work on his second novel, A Suitable Boy (1993). Though initially conceived as a short piece detailing the formative years of India after Independence, the novel grew and Seth was to labor over it for almost a decade. The 1349-page novel is a family saga set in post-independence, post-Partition India, and it propelled Seth into the public spotlight. Seth's third novel, An Equal Music (1999), is set in contemporary Europe.
Vikram Seth received an advance of 1.3 million pounds(about Rs. 9.5 crores) from the publishers of Time Warner for his book, Two Lives, which was published in October, 2005.
A film of A Suitable Boy is slated for release in 2006.
Novels
- An Equal Music, 1999
- A Suitable Boy, 1993
- The Golden Gate (1986)
Poetry
- Three Chinese Poets (1992)
- Beastly Tales (1991)
- All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990)
- The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985)
- Mappings (1980)
Libretto
- Arion and the Dolphin (1994) for the English National Opera; published as an illustrated book.
Non-Fiction
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