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Vikram Seth was born on 20 June, 1952 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, is an Indian novelist and poet. Discover Vikram Seth's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

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Occupation Novelist · poet
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 20 June, 1952
Birthday 20 June
Birthplace Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nationality India

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1952

Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet.

He has written several novels and poetry books.

He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Academy 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.

Seth was born on 20 June 1952 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.

Seth was educated at the all-boys' private boarding school The Doon School in Dehradun, where he was editor-in-chief of The Doon School Weekly.

At Doon, he was influenced by his teacher, the mountaineer Gurdial Singh, who taught him geography and according to Leila Seth, "guided Vikram in many ways...encouraged him to appreciate Western classical music and instilled in him a love of adventure and daring."

Singh later described Seth as an "indefatigable worker, and he maintains without difficulty his distinguished level in studies...he has put in enormous amount of energy in other spheres of school life, in dramatics, in debating, in first aid, in music, and in editing the Doon School Weekly."

After graduating from Doon, Seth went to Tonbridge School, England, to complete his A-levels.

Later he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

He then pursued a Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University though never completed it.

Seth has published eight books of poetry and three novels.

1980

In 1980, he wrote Mappings, his first book of poetry.

The publication of A Suitable Boy, a 1,349-page novel, propelled Seth into the public limelight.

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

1983

He has written a travel book, From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983), an account of a journey through Tibet, China and Nepal.

He was also commissioned by the English National Opera to write a libretto based on the Greek legend of Arion and the Dolphin.

1992

His children's book, Beastly Tales from Here and There (1992) consists of 10 stories about animals.

1994

The opera was performed for the first time in June 1994.

2005

Seth's work Two Lives, published in 2005, is a memoir of the marriage of his great-uncle and aunt.

He prepared an acrostic poem for his address at Gordon's 2005 memorial service.

Seth is bisexual.

He was in a relationship with the violinist Philippe Honoré for ten years and dedicated his novel An Equal Music to him.

2006

In 2006, he became a leader of the campaign against Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a law against homosexuality.

2009

A sequel to A Suitable Boy, A Suitable Girl, was announced in 2009.

Seth's former literary agent Giles Gordon recalled being interviewed by Seth for the position, "Vikram sat at one end of a long table and he began to grill us. It was absolutely incredible. He wanted to know our literary tastes, our views on poetry, our views on plays, which novelists we liked".

Seth later explained to Gordon that he had passed the interview not because of commercial considerations, but because unlike the others he was the only agent who seemed as interested in his poetry as in his other writing.

Seth followed what he has described as "the ludicrous advance for that book" (£250,000 for A Suitable Boy) with £500,000 for An Equal Music and £1.4 million for Two Lives.

2013

When Section 377 was reinstated in 2013, Seth continued campaigning against the law.

Seth divides his time between the United Kingdom, where he bought and renovated the former home of the Anglican poet George Herbert near Salisbury, and India, where he has a family home in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

2020

It was adapted into a BBC television drama miniseries in 2020.

His second novel, An Equal Music, deals with the troubled love-life of a violinist.