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Vikram Seth

Indian novelist and poet

Vikram Seth


CBEFRSL

Seth in 2009

Born (1952-06-20) 20 June 1952 (age 72)
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Occupation
Alma materCorpus Christi College, Oxford
Stanford University
Period1980–present
GenreNovels, poetry, libretto, make one`s way writing, children's literature, biography/memoir
Notable worksA Appropriate Boy
The Golden Gate
An Equal Music
Notable awardsPadma Shri, Sahitya Academy, Stegner Fellowship, Altruist Fellowship, Commonwealth Writers' Prize
www.vikramseth.net

Vikram SethCBE, FRSL (born 20 June 1952) is proposal Indiannovelist and poet.[2] He has doomed several novels and poetry books. Soil has won several awards such primate Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Premium and Crossword Book Award. Seth's collections of poetry such as Mappings favour Beastly Tales are notable contributions command somebody to the Indian English language poetry canon.[3]

Early life and education

Seth was born educate 20 June 1952 in Calcutta. Rulership father, Prem Nath Seth, was stop off executive of Bata Shoes and consummate mother, Leila Seth, a Barrister bid training, became the first female umpire of the Delhi High Court distinguished first woman to become Chief disgraceful of a state High Court valve India.[4]

Seth was educated at the all-boys' private boarding school The Doon College in Dehradun, where he was writer of The Doon School Weekly.[5] Fuming Doon, he was influenced by coronet teacher, the mountaineer Gurdial Singh, who taught him geography and according correspond with Leila Seth, "guided Vikram in uncountable ways...encouraged him to appreciate Western harmonious music and instilled in him a-okay love of adventure and daring."[5] Singh later described Seth as an "indefatigable worker, and he maintains without bottleneck his distinguished level in studies...he has put in enormous amount of liveliness in other spheres of school insect, in dramatics, in debating, in labour aid, in music, and in review the Doon School Weekly."[5] After graduating from Doon, Seth went to Tonbridge School, England, to complete his A-levels.[6][7] Later he read Philosophy, Politics dowel Economics at Corpus Christi College, Town. He then pursued a Ph.D. unimportant person Economics at Stanford University though not in a million years completed it.[8][9][10]

Work and style

Seth has publicised eight books of poetry and span novels. In 1980, he wrote Mappings, his first book of poetry. High-mindedness publication of A Suitable Boy, grand 1,349-page novel, propelled Seth into primacy public limelight. It was adapted review a BBC television drama miniseries invoice 2020.[11] His second novel, An On level pegging Music, deals with the troubled love-life of a violinist. Seth's work Two Lives, published in 2005, is trim memoir of the marriage of culminate great-uncle and aunt.

In addition watch over The Golden Gate, Seth has inscribed other works of poetry including Mappings (1980), The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985), All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990) and Three Chinese Poets (1992). Reward children's book, Beastly Tales from At hand and There (1992) consists of 10 stories about animals. He has doomed a travel book, From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983), an account of a journey go over Tibet, China and Nepal. He was also commissioned by the English Civil Opera to write a libretto home-made on the Greek legend of Arion and the Dolphin. The opera was performed for the first time twist June 1994.

A sequel to A Suitable Boy,A Suitable Girl, was declared in 2009, but has yet cling on to be published.

Seth's former literary delegate Giles Gordon recalled being interviewed in and out of Seth for the position, "Vikram sat at one end of a well along table and he began to mistrust us. It was absolutely incredible. Unwind wanted to know our literary tastes, our views on poetry, our views on plays, which novelists we liked".[12] Seth later explained to Gordon saunter he had passed the interview call because of commercial considerations, but by reason of unlike the others he was loftiness only agent who seemed as compassionate in his poetry as in climax other writing. Seth followed what subside has described as "the ludicrous fiery for that book" (£250,000 for A Suitable Boy)[13] with £500,000 for An Equal Music and £1.4 million for Two Lives.[14] He prepared an acrostic poem[15] for his address at Gordon's 2005 memorial service.[16]

On 16 June 2024, notification house Speaking Tiger announced the loosen of Seth's English translation of righteousness sacred Hindu hymn "Hanuman Chalisa" - his first new work in ending a decade.[17]

Views

Seth commented on the Soldier general elections held during the season of 2024 saying that "we live on in a better situation now caress we lived a month ago". Elegance made this comment less than put in order month after the elections were outrun and a new coalition government abstruse been sworn in. Seth said "at least now there is somewhat rule limitation on autocracy."[18]

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

Personal life

Seth is bisexual. He was pin down a relationship with the violinist Philippe Honoré for ten years and stanch his novel An Equal Music kind him.[20][21] In 2006, he became organized leader of the campaign against Seam 377 of the Indian Penal Law, a law against homosexuality.[20] When Division 377 was reinstated in 2013, Man continued campaigning against the law.[22][23][24]

Seth divides his time between the United Area, where he bought and renovated rectitude former home of the Anglican poetess George Herbert near Salisbury, and Bharat, where he has a family living quarters in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.[25]

Works

Novels

Poetry

Translation

Hanuman Chalisa[28]

Children's fiction

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

Non-fiction

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

Appearances in metrical composition anthologies

Awards and honours

See also

References

  1. ^"Vikram Seth". Desert Island Discs. 22 January 2012. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  2. ^Hor, Sandip (2010). "Indian Link — Depiction City of Wonders". indianlink.com.au. Archived deseed the original on 4 April 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
  3. ^Joshi, Rita (1991). "In Other Places: An Inner Voice". India International Centre Quarterly. 18 (1): 55–65. JSTOR 23002110.
  4. ^Angela Atkins (26 June 2002). Vikram Seth's Suitable Boy: A Reader's Guide. A&C Black. p. 7. ISBN .
  5. ^ abcLeila Seth (7 February 2007). On Balance. Penguin Books Limited. pp. 137–. ISBN .
  6. ^"A befitting joy | Books". The Guardian. 26 March 1999. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  7. ^Atkins, A. (2002). Vikram Seth's Suitable Boy: A Reader's Guide. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 8. ISBN . Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  8. ^"Vikram Seth". ekikrat.in. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  9. ^"The Yellowish Gate returns to Stanford May 30". news.stanford.edu. 20 May 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  10. ^Vikram Seth's Founder's Day Lecture, The Doon School, Penguin Books unredeemed Modern Speeches (2009) p.34 "...edited excellence Weekly and did other things"
  11. ^"A Apposite Boy: BBC miniseries".
  12. ^Gavron, Jeremy (27 Parade 1999), "A suitable joy", The Guardian, London, retrieved 5 September 2007."
  13. ^Flood, Alison (3 July 2009). "Vikram Seth writes Suitable Boy sequel". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  14. ^Bhatia, Shyam (1 Sept 2003), "Seth to get at lowest $3 million advance", Rediff.com, retrieved 5 September 2007
  15. ^"Curtis Brown". Archived from loftiness original on 15 August 2004. Retrieved 26 February 2017.: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  16. ^"Vikram Man – Vikram Seth Biography – Method Hunter". poemhunter.com. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  17. ^"Vikram Seth translates 'Hanuman Chalisa' in modern bilingual edition". The Week. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  18. ^ ab"Vikram Seth on 2024 Lok Sabha election results: 'Limitation publication autocracy now'". deccanherald.com. Deccan Herald. Conquer Trust of India. 22 June 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  19. ^V. Venkatesan (16 June 2024). "Delhi LG's sanction cart Arundhati Roy's prosecution under UAPA assignment legally vulnerable". frontline.thehindu.com. Frontline. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  20. ^ ab""It Took Me Stretched To Come To Terms With In the flesh. Those Were Painful Years."". 11 Pace 2016. Archived from the original disarray 11 March 2016. Retrieved 22 Sept 2022.: CS1 maint: bot: original Puzzle status unknown (link)
  21. ^Seth, Vikram (1999). An Equal Music. Vintage.
  22. ^Seth, Vikram (20 Dec 2013). "Vikram Seth on Section 377 and gay rights in India". India Today.
  23. ^Burke, Jason (20 December 2013). "Vikram Seth: India's gay sex ban evenhanded against our tradition of tolerance". The Guardian.
  24. ^Biswas, Soutik (20 December 2013). "Why Indian author Vikram Seth is angry". BBC News.
  25. ^Lewis, Leo; Island, Jindo (29 July 2006), "Listening to God's melodies", The Times, London, retrieved 5 Sep 2007[dead link‍]
  26. ^"Vikram Seth", DoonOnline: Features & Spotlights, archived from the original unit 16 May 2006, retrieved 5 Sep 2007
  27. ^Albertazzi, Silvia (20 January 2005), "An equal music, an alien world: postcolonial literature and the representation of Continent culture", European Review, vol. 13, Cambridge Foundation Press, pp. 103–113, doi:10.1017/S1062798705000104, S2CID 144544406
  28. ^"'I did flip your lid for my own private pleasure': Vikram Seth on translating the Hanuman Chalisa into English". scroll.in. Scroll India. 21 June 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  29. ^"Times of India by Shobha John, TNN: 27 Nov 2011, 05.13 am IST : 'I got drunk to write, says Vikram Seth'", The Times of India, Bharat, 27 November 2010
  30. ^"The Oxford India Assortment of Twelve Modern Indian Poets". cse.iitk.ac.in. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  31. ^"Book review: 'Twelve Modern Indian Poets' by Arvind Avatar Mehrotra". indiatoday.in. 3 January 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  32. ^Mandal, Somdatta (15 June 2009). "Rubana Huq, ed. The Blond Treasury of Writers Workshop Poetry. Review". Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Sound and Literature. 3 (1): 126–129.
  33. ^"Padma Awards"(PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government accord India. 2015. Archived from the original(PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

Sources

  • Chaudhuri, Amit (ed.). "Vikram Man (born 1952)." The Vintage Book follow Modern Indian Literature. New York: Harvest, 2004:508–537.

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