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Vikram Seth

India (1952 - )

About Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth, born June 20, 1952 is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist. An unusually forthcoming writer whose published material is replete with un- or thinly-disguised details as to the personal lives of himself and his intimates related in a highly engaging narrative voice.

He has written great books in every genre: verse novel (The Golden Gate), travel book (From Heaven Lake, the winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award), and epic masterpiece (A Suitable Boy).

Novels

The Golden Gate (1986)
A Suitable Boy (1993)
An Equal Music (1999)

Collections

Mappings (poems) (1981)
Humble Administrator's Garden (poems) (1985)
All You Who Sleep Tonight (poems) (1990)
Beastly Tales (poems) (1991)
Three Chinese Poets (poems) (1992)
Ox-Tales: Earth (2009) (with Kate Atkinson, Jonathan Buckley, Jonathan Coe, Hanif Kureishi, Marti Leimbach, Marina Lewycka, Ian Rankin, Nicholas Shakespeare and Rose Tremain)
Ox-Tales:Fire (2009) (with Geoff Dyer, Sebastian Faulks, Mark Haddon, Victoria Hislop, John Le Carré, Lionel Shriver, Ali Smith, William Sutcliffe, Jeanette Winterson and Xiaolu Guo)

Chapbooks

Riot at Misri Mandi (1995)

Picture Books

Arion and the Dolphin: Libretto (1994)

Non fiction

From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang And Tibet (1983)
Two Lives (2005)

Vikram Seth recommends

Chowringhee (1962)
Sankar
"I read Chowringhee many years ago in a Hindi translation and lost myself in it for days. It was a wonderful experience - both gripping and moving. I... hope [this english translation] gets the wide readership it deserves."

The Lost City (2007)
Henry Shukman
"A very gifted and haunting new writer."

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