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Vikram Seth


Born
in Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal, India
June 20, 1952

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Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry


Vikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist.

During the course of his doctorate studies at Stanford, he did his field work in China and translated Hindi and Chinese poetry into English. He returned to Delhi via Xinjiang and Tibet which led to a travel narrative From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983) which won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.

The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse (1986) was his first novel describing the experiences of a group of friends who live in California. A Suitable Boy (1993), an epic of Indian life set in the 1950s, got him the WH Smith Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.

His poetry includes The Humble Administrator's ...more

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Average rating: 4.03 · 77,699 ratings · 5,728 reviews · 60 distinct works • Similar authors
A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of...
4.11 avg rating — 49,975 ratings — published 1993 — 108 editions
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An Equal Music
3.80 avg rating — 11,096 ratings — published 1999 — 75 editions
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The Golden Gate
4.02 avg rating — 4,856 ratings — published 1986 — 26 editions
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Two Lives
3.68 avg rating — 3,771 ratings — published 2005 — 48 editions
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From Heaven Lake: Travels T...
4.04 avg rating — 2,115 ratings — published 1983 — 10 editions
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Beastly Tales from Here and...
4.09 avg rating — 1,017 ratings — published 1992 — 23 editions
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A Suitable Boy, Vol. 1
4.16 avg rating — 961 ratings — published 1993 — 19 editions
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All You Who Sleep Tonight: ...
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A Suitable Boy, Vol. 3
4.34 avg rating — 422 ratings — published 1993 — 8 editions
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A Suitable Boy, Vol. 2
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“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
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“But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
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“I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.”
― Vikram Seth, From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
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