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Author Profiles |
Vikram Seth
 Born
in 1952 in Calcutta, India, Vikram Seth was educated
at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Stanford University
and Nanjing University. He has traveled widely and
lived in Britain, California, India and China. His
first novel, The Golden
Gate: A Novel in Verse (1986), describes
the experiences of a group of friends living in California.
His acclaimed epic of Indian life, A
Suitable Boy (1993) which took him six
years to write, won the WH
Smith Literary Award and the Commonwealth
Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book).
Set in India in the early 1950s, it is the story of
a young girl, Lata, and her search for a husband.
His next novel An Equal
Music (1999), is the story of a violinist
haunted by the memory of a former lover. Vikram Seth's
latest work is Two Lives (2005), a memoir of the marriage of his great uncle
and aunt.
He currently maintains residences
in Salisbury, England and Delhi.
Published works
Novels
- The Golden Gate (1986)
- A Suitable Boy, (1993)
- An Equal Music, (1999)
- Mappings (1980)
- The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985)
- All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990)
- Beastly Tales (1991)
- Three
Chinese Poets (1992)
- From Heaven Lake, (1983)
- Two Lives, (2005)
Awards
- 1983 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang
and Tibet
- 1985 Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) The
Humble Administrator's Garden
- 1993 Irish Times International Fiction Prize (shortlist) A Suitable Boy
- 1994 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner,
Best Book) A Suitable Boy
- 1994 WH Smith Literary Award A Suitable Boy
- 2001 EMMA (BT Ethnic and Multicultural Media Award) for Best Book/Novel An Equal Music
- 2005 Pravasi Bharatiya Samman
- 2007 Padma Shri award.
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