Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth signing autographs at Bangla Academy, Dhaka on 17 November 2012 | Born | 20 June 1952 (age 61)
Kolkata, India | Occupation | Novelist, poet | Nationality | Indian | Alma mater | The Doon School
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Stanford University | Genres | novels, poetry, libretto, travel writing, children 's literature, biography/memoir | Notable work(s) | A Suitable Boy
The Golden Gate
An Equal Music
A Suitable Girl |
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Background[edit source | editbeta]
Seth was born on 20 June 1952 in a Punjabi family to Leila and Prem Seth in Calcutta (now Kolkata).
Seth spent part of his youth in London and returned to his homeland in 1957. He received primary education at Welham Boys ' School and then moved to The Doon School. While at Doon, Seth was the editor-in-chief of The Doon School Weekly.[1] After graduating from The Doon School in India, Seth went to Tonbridge School,England to complete his A-levels,[2][3][4] where he developed an interest in poetry and learned Chinese. After leaving Oxford, Seth moved to California to work on a graduate degree in economics at Stanford University. He then went on to study creative writing at Stanford and classical Chinese poetry at Nanjing University in China.
Having lived in London for many years, Seth now maintains residences near Salisbury, England, where he is a participant in local literary and cultural events, having bought and renovated the house of the Anglican poet George Herbert in 1996,[5] and in Delhi, where he lives with his parents and keeps his extensive library and papers.
Seth self-identifies as bisexual. In 2006, he became a leader of the campaign against Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a law against homosexuality.[6] Leila Seth, his mother wrote about Seth 's sexuality and her coming in terms with it in her memoir.[7]
His younger brother, Shantum, leads Buddhist meditational tours. His younger sister, Aradhana, is a
Kolkata, India | Occupation | Novelist, poet | Nationality | Indian | Alma mater | The Doon School
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Stanford University | Genres | novels, poetry, libretto, travel writing, children 's literature, biography/memoir | Notable work(s) | A Suitable Boy
The Golden Gate
An Equal Music
A Suitable Girl |
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Background[edit source | editbeta]
Seth was born on 20 June 1952 in a Punjabi family to Leila and Prem Seth in Calcutta (now Kolkata).
Seth spent part of his youth in London and returned to his homeland in 1957. He received primary education at Welham Boys ' School and then moved to The Doon School. While at Doon, Seth was the editor-in-chief of The Doon School Weekly.[1] After graduating from The Doon School in India, Seth went to Tonbridge School,England to complete his A-levels,[2][3][4] where he developed an interest in poetry and learned Chinese. After leaving Oxford, Seth moved to California to work on a graduate degree in economics at Stanford University. He then went on to study creative writing at Stanford and classical Chinese poetry at Nanjing University in China.
Having lived in London for many years, Seth now maintains residences near Salisbury, England, where he is a participant in local literary and cultural events, having bought and renovated the house of the Anglican poet George Herbert in 1996,[5] and in Delhi, where he lives with his parents and keeps his extensive library and papers.
Seth self-identifies as bisexual. In 2006, he became a leader of the campaign against Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a law against homosexuality.[6] Leila Seth, his mother wrote about Seth 's sexuality and her coming in terms with it in her memoir.[7]
His younger brother, Shantum, leads Buddhist meditational tours. His younger sister, Aradhana, is a
Bibliography: * The Golden Gate (1986)[11] * A Suitable Boy (1993) * An Equal Music (1999)[12] * A Suitable Girl (2013) Poetry[edit source | editbeta] * Mappings (1980) * The Humble Administrator 's Garden (1985) * All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990) * Beastly Tales (1991) * Three Chinese Poets (1992) * The Frog and the Nightingale (1994) Children 's book[edit source | editbeta] * Beastly Tales (1991) Libretti[edit source | editbeta] * Arion and the Dolphin (1994) for the English National Opera * The Traveller [2008] with composer Alec Roth Others[edit source | editbeta] * From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983)