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Vikram Seth

Indian novelist and poet

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Born	() 20 June (age&#;72) Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Occupation
Alma&#;mater	Corpus Christi College, Oxford Stanford University
Period	–present
Genre	Novels, poetry, libretto, travel writing, children's literature, biography/memoir
Notable works	A Suitable Boy The Golden Gate An Equal Music
Notable awards	Padma Shri, Sahitya Academy, Stegner Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, FRSL Commonwealth Writers' Prize

Vikram Seth (born 20 June ) is an Indiannovelist and poet.^[2] He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award. Seth's collections of poetry such as Mappings and Beastly Tales are notable contributions to the Indian English language poetry canon.^[3]

Early life and education

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Seth was born on 20 June in Calcutta. His father, Prem Nath Seth, was an executive of Bata Shoes and his mother, Leila Seth, a Barrister by training, became the first female judge of the Delhi High Court and first woman to become Chief justice of a state High Court in India.^[4]

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About

Vikram Seth is among the most celebrated Indian novelists and poets. He was born on 20th of June in Kolkata to Leila, a court judge, and Prem Seth, a shoe company executive. He has his roots in Punjab. He traveled a lot with his family as a child from Batanagar to Danpur to London.

Education

He received his early education from St. Xavier’s High School in India. Seth went back to England and during his A-levels he developed interest in Chinese language and poetry. He received degrees in Economics, Philosophy and Politics from Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Seth moved to California in pursuit of Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University but couldn’t complete the course. His interest in economic field had dried out and gradually developed in writing. Afterwards, he studied creative writing at Stanford University and classical Chinese poetry at Nanjing University.

Work

Seth has experimented with a number of genres in writing. He initiated his writing career with poetry. He published the first volume of his poetry work in , named Mappings. The volume was ridiculed when he sent a copy to a famous English poet, Philip Larkin. However, he persuaded Seth to brave the difficulties of writing and write on. In , the secon