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Personal life. 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.
Family, Caste & Wife. Vikram Seth’s father, Prem Nath Seth was an executive of Bata Shoes and was nicknamed ‘Mr Shoe’ in Delhi. His mother, Leila Seth was the first female judge of the Delhi High Court and also the first woman Chief Justice of a state High Court in India. Vikram Seth’s Parents.
Vikram Seth was born to Prem Seth and his wife Leila Seth, on 20 June 1952, in Calcutta (now renamed Kolkata) located in the state of West Bengal in India. His father was an executive with Bata shoe company, while his mother was a judge. He was the eldest among his parents’ three children.
Jun 16, 2024 · Vikram Seth (born June 20, 1952, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India) is an Indian poet, novelist, and travel writer known for his verse novel The Golden Gate (1986) and his epic novel A Suitable Boy (1993). The son of a judge and a businessman, Seth was raised in London and India.
Apr 6, 2023 · Part memoir, part family history, Two Lives chronicles the remarkable story of Seth's great aunt Henny – a German Jew who lost her family in the Holocaust – and his great uncle Shanti – an...
EARLY LIFE AND EARLY POETRY. Vikram Seth was born in Calcutta on June 20, 1952, into a middle-class Hindu family. His father, Prem Seth, is a consultant to the leather industry and his mother, Laila Seth, is a High Court judge.
Jul 24, 2020 · Watch the trailer for A Suitable Boy. A six-part adaptation of Vikram Seth's coming of age story, which follows student Lata who is torn between family duty and the promise of romance, as...
Vikram Seth was born in Calcutta in 1952. His mother was a judge and his father an executive in a shoe company. He studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and Stanford Universities as well as spending some time in China studying Chinese poetry.
Oct 8, 2021 · After the buzz around the BBC’s adaptation of A Suitable Boy, a new collector’s series of Vikram Seth’s poetry puts the spotlight on the author’s poetic accomplishments. Published by Speaking Tiger, the seven volumes showcase the breadth of Seth’s genius and the recurrent patterns in his poems.
Vikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist. During the course of his doctorate studies at Stanford, he did his field work in China and translated Hindi and Chinese poetry into English.
