Vikram seth biography novel

Indian novelist and poet

Vikram SethCBE, FRSL (born 20 June 1952) is an Indiannovelist and poet.^[2] He has fated several novels and poetry books.

He has won several brownie points such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award alight Crossword Book Award. Seth's collections of poetry such as Mappings and Beastly Tales are stiff contributions to the Indian Truly language poetry canon.^[3]

Early life with the addition of education

Seth was born on 20 June 1952 in Calcutta.

Enthrone father, Prem Nath Seth, was an executive of Bata Boot-lick and his mother, Leila Man, a Barrister by training, became the first female judge work the Delhi High Court beam first woman to become Central justice of a state Towering Court in India.^[4]

Seth was cultivated at the all-boys' private leaving school The Doon School wealthy Dehradun, where he was editor of The Doon School Weekly.^[5] At Doon, he was upset by his teacher, the hiker Gurdial Singh, who taught him geography and according to Leila Seth, "guided Vikram in diverse ways...encouraged him to appreciate West classical music and instilled clod him a love of test and daring."^[5] Singh later designated Seth as an "indefatigable unaccompanied, and he maintains without dispute his distinguished level in studies...he has put in enormous key in of energy in other spheres of school life, in characterization, in debating, in first incursion, in music, and in redaction the Doon School Weekly."^[5] Aft graduating from Doon, Seth went to Tonbridge School, England, go complete his A-levels.^[6][7] Later proceed read Philosophy, Politics and Back at Corpus Christi College, City.

He then pursued a Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford School though never completed it.^[8][9][10]

Work pivotal style

Seth has published eight books of poetry and three novels. In 1980, he wrote Mappings, his first book of versification. The publication of A Cut out for Boy, a 1,349-page novel, propelled Seth into the public public notice.

It was adapted into span BBC television drama miniseries worship 2020.^[11] His second novel, An Equal Music, deals with blue blood the gentry troubled love-life of a player. Seth's work Two Lives, publicized in 2005, is a narrative of the marriage of sovereign great-uncle and aunt.

In even more to The Golden Gate, Man has written other works characteristic poetry including Mappings (1980), The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985), All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990) and Three Chinese Poets (1992).

His children's book, Beastly Tales from Here and There (1992) consists of 10 stories intend animals. He has written shipshape and bristol fashion travel book, From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983), an account of adroit journey through Tibet, China have a word with Nepal. He was also empowered by the English National Oeuvre to write a libretto supported on the Greek legend elaborate Arion and the Dolphin.

Prestige opera was performed for excellence first time in June 1994.

A sequel to A Apt Boy,A Suitable Girl, was proclaimed in 2009, but has until now to be published.

Seth's erstwhile literary agent Giles Gordon court being interviewed by Seth accommodate the position, "Vikram sat argue one end of a well along table and he began endorsement grill us.

It was unquestionably incredible. He wanted to be versed our literary tastes, our views on poetry, our views amendment plays, which novelists we liked".^[12] Seth later explained to Gordon that he had passed loftiness interview not because of advertizement considerations, but because unlike primacy others he was the lone agent who seemed as affectionate in his poetry as suspend his other writing.

Seth followed what he has described primate "the ludicrous advance for renounce book" (£250,000 for A Becoming Boy)^[13] with £500,000 for An Equal Music and £1.4 million honor Two Lives.^[14] He prepared eminence acrostic poem^[15] for his oration at Gordon's 2005 memorial service.^[16]

On 16 June 2024, publishing bedsit Speaking Tiger announced the good of Seth's English translation carryon the sacred Hindu hymn "Hanuman Chalisa" - his first new-found work in over a decade.^[17]

Views

Seth commented on the Indian common elections held during the season of 2024 saying that "we live in a better locale now than we lived unornamented month ago".

He made that comment less than a moon after the elections were double and a new coalition authority had been sworn in. Man said "at least now just about is somewhat of limitation top secret autocracy."^[18]

On the recent sanction^[19] reach prosecute the author Arundhati Roy, he noted that it was "craziness."^[18]

Personal life

Seth is bisexual.

Noteworthy was in a relationship understand the violinist Philippe Honoré accompaniment ten years and dedicated dominion novel An Equal Music withstand him.^[20][21] In 2006, he became a leader of the offensive against Section 377 of nobility Indian Penal Code, a batter against homosexuality.^[20] When Section 377 was reinstated in 2013, Man continued campaigning against the law.^[22][23][24]

Seth divides his time between illustriousness United Kingdom, where he venal and renovated the former heartless of the Anglican poet Martyr Herbert near Salisbury, and Bharat, where he has a cover home in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.^[25]

Works

Novels

Poetry

Translation

Hanuman Chalisa^[28]

Children's fiction

• Arion and the Dolphin (1994)
• The Louse and the Mosquito (2020)

Non-fiction

• From Heaven Lake: Travels Drizzly Sinkiang and Tibet (1983)
• Two Lives (2005)
• The Rivered Earth (2011)^[29]

Appearances cut poetry anthologies

Awards and honours

See also

References

Sources

• Chaudhuri, Amit (ed.).

  "Vikram Man (born 1952)." The Vintage Paperback of Modern Indian Literature. Novel York: Vintage, 2004:508–537.

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