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Vikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist ,travel writer ,librettist , children's writer , biographer and memoirist .He was born in 1952 in Calcutta . Seth has written many novels and poetry Books .
LIST OF AWARDS SETH RECEIVED
•Padma Shri
• Sahitya Akademi Award ,
• Pravasi Bharatiya Samman
Seth's collection of poetry such as Mappings And Beastly tales are notable contribution to the Indian English Language .
•Padma Shri
• Sahitya Akademi Award ,
• Pravasi Bharatiya Samman
Seth's collection of poetry such as Mappings And Beastly tales are notable contribution to the Indian English Language .
Vikram Seth's father Premo Seth worked for a long time with Bata - shoe company and due to which he is known in certain circles as 'MR. Shoe'
Vikram Seth's mother Laila Seth was a High court judge , She was also a writer ,her autobiography on Balance (2003) gives significant perspective on her own personal career and those of her talented children .
Seth's parents seems to have seminal influence on the growing writer.
Vikram Seth's mother Laila Seth was a High court judge , She was also a writer ,her autobiography on Balance (2003) gives significant perspective on her own personal career and those of her talented children .
Seth's parents seems to have seminal influence on the growing writer.
Seth's Novel 'A Suitable Boy (1933) ,in many ways a novel patterned from autobiographical material in this Novel many of his fictional characters are drawn from life .
Seth's receive his primary and secondary education at the Doon school in Dehradun in India, Seth studied philosophy ,politics , and economics at Corpus Christi college , Oxford ,there seth developed an interest in poetry and Chinese .
WRITINGS
Travel writings : From Heaven Lake : Through Sinkiang and Tibet
Travel writings : From Heaven Lake : Through Sinkiang and Tibet
His travel book FROM HEAVEN LAKE : TRAVELS THROUGH SINKIANG AND TIBET (1983) was his first popular success and won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award .
POETRY
Seth has published Five volumes of poetry . His first MAPPINGS (1980) , originally privately published .
Seth has published Five volumes of poetry . His first MAPPINGS (1980) , originally privately published .
In 2009 Seth contributed four poems to Oxfam.
NOVELS
The first of his novels , ''The Golden Gate ''(1986) is a novel in verse about the lives of a number of young professionals in San Fransisco .
Vikram Seth's works :
Popular poems
A style of Loving
The frog and the Nightingale
At evening
From California
The wind
Non-Fiction
From Heaven Lake (1983)
Two lives (2005)
A style of Loving
The frog and the Nightingale
At evening
From California
The wind
Non-Fiction
From Heaven Lake (1983)
Two lives (2005)
Poetry
Mappings (1980)
Beastly Tales (1991)
Three Chinese poets (1992)
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Mappings (1980)
Beastly Tales (1991)
Three Chinese poets (1992)
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