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vikram Seth was born 20 June 1952 is an Indian novelist and poet. Vikram Seth was born on 20 June 1952 in a Punjabi family to Leila and Prem Seth in Calcutta (now Kolkata ). His family lived in many cities including the Bata Shoe Company town of Batanagar , Danapur near Patna , and in London.

His younger brother, Shantum, leads Buddhist meditational tours. His younger sister, Aradhana, is a film-maker married to an Austrian diplomat, and has worked on Deepa Mehta 's movies Earthand Fire . (Compare the characters Haresh, Lata, Savita and two of the Chatterji siblings in A Suitable Boy: Seth has been candid in acknowledging that many of his fictional characters are drawn from life; he has said that only the dog Cuddles in A Suitable Boy has his real name — "Because he can 't sue". Justice Leila Seth has said in her memoir On Balance that other characters in A Suitable Boy are composites but Haresh is a portrait of her husband Prem.)

Seth spent part of his youth in London but returned to his homeland in 1957. He received primary education at Welham Boys ' Schooland then moved to The Doon School. After commencing secondary education at The Doon School in India, Seth returned to England toTonbridge School.^[1] [2] While at Doon, Seth was the Editor-in-chief of The Doon School Weekly. ^[3] From there, Seth moved on to study English at Oxford but soon changed his course to Philosophy, Politics and Economics studying at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, ^[4] where he developed an interest in poetry and learned Chinese. After leaving Oxford, Seth moved to California to work on a graduate degree in economics at Stanford University. He then went on to study creative writing at Stanford and classical Chinese poetry atNanjing University in China.

Having lived in London for many years, Seth now maintains residences near Salisbury, England, where he is a participant in local literary and cultural events, having bought and renovated the house of the Anglican poet George Herbert in 1996, ^[5] and in Delhi, where he lives with his parents and keeps his extensive library and papers.

Travel writing: From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet

From Heaven Lake, published in 1987, was the first widely published book which caused his fame as a writer to begin to develop. "After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, [he] hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lakeis the story of his...journey and his encounters with nomadic Muslims, Chinese officials, Buddhists and others." ^[11]

[edit] Poetry

Seth has published five volumes of poetry. His first, Mappings (1980), was originally privately published; it attracted little attention and indeed Philip Larkin, to whom he sent it for comment, referred to it scornfully among his intimates, though he offered Seth encouragement. ^[7]

In 2009 Seth contributed four poems to Oxfam which are used as introductions to each of the four collections of UK stories which form Oxfam 's 'Ox-Tales ' book project.

Novels in prose

The "novel in verse": The Golden Gate (Hybrid)

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 Francisco. The novel is written entirely in Onegin stanzas after the style Aleksandr Pushkin 's Eugene Onegin . Seth had encountered Charles Johnston 's 1977 translation of it in a Stanford second-hand bookstore and it changed the direction of his career, shifting his focus from academic to literary work. The likelihood of commercial success seemed highly doubtful – and the scepticism of friends as to the novel 's viability is facetiously quoted within the novel; but the verse novel received wide acclaim (Gore Vidal dubbed it "The Great California Novel") and achieved healthy sales. The novel contains a strong element of affectionate satire, as with his subsequent novel, A Suitable Boy .

"The Golden Gate, an opera in two acts with music by Conrad Cummings and libretto from the novel-in-verse by Vikram Seth adapted by the composer" is currently (2010) in development by LivelyWorks and American Opera Projects and receives a staged workshop production at the Rose Studio at Lincoln Center in New York City in January 2010.

A Suitable Boy

After the success of The Golden Gate , Seth took up residence in his parents ' house back in Delhi to work on his second novel, A Suitable Boy (1993). Though initially conceived as a short piece detailing the domestic drama of an Indian mother 's search for an appropriate husband for her marriageable Indian daughter against the background of the formative years of India after independence, the novel grew and Seth was to labour over it for almost a decade. The 1474-page novel is a four-family saga set in post-independence, post-Partition India, and alternatively satirically and earnestly examines issues of national politics in the period leading up to the first post-independence national election of 1952, inter-sectarian animosity, the status of lower caste peoples such as the jatav, land reform and the eclipse of the feudal princes and landlords, academic affairs, inter- and intra-family relations and a range of further issues of importance to the characters. The Indian journalist and novelist Khushwant Singh has said of the novel that, "I lived through that period and I couldn 't find a flaw. It really is an authentic picture of Nehru 's India." ^[13] The novel was, despite its formidable length, a bestseller, and propelled Seth into the public spotlight.

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