Vikram Seth, born June 20, 1952 is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist. An unusually forthcoming writer whose published material is replete with un- or thinly-disguised details as to the personal lives of himself and his intimates related in a highly engaging narrative voice.
He has written great books in every genre: verse novel (The Golden Gate), travel book (From Heaven Lake, the winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award), and epic masterpiece (A Suitable Boy).
Novels
Collections
Mappings (poems) (1981)
Humble Administrator's Garden (poems) (1985)
All You Who Sleep Tonight (poems) (1990)
Three Chinese Poets (poems) (1991)
Beastly Tales (poems) (1992)
The Poems 1981-1994 (poems) (1995)
The Collected Poems (poems) (1999)
Ox-Tales: Earth (2009) (with Kate Atkinson, Jonathan Buckley, Jonathan Coe, Hanif Kureishi, Marti Leimbach, Marina Lewycka, Ian Rankin, Nicholas Shakespeare and Rose Tremain)
Ox-Tales:Air (2009) (with Diran Adebayo, Beryl Bainbridge, Helen Fielding, A L Kennedy, Alexander McCall Smith, D B C Pierre, Kamila Shamsie, Helen Simpson and Louise Welsh)
Ox-Tales:Fire (2009) (with Geoff Dyer, Sebastian Faulks, Mark Haddon, Victoria Hislop, John Le Carré, Lionel Shriver, Ali Smith, William Sutcliffe, Jeanette Winterson and Xiaolu Guo)
Ox-Tales:Water (2009) (with William Boyd, Michel Faber, Giles Foden, Esther Freud, Zoë Heller, Heri Kunzu, Michael Morpurgo and David Park)
The Rivered Earth (poems) (2011)
Summer Requiem (poems) (2015)
Humble Administrator's Garden (poems) (1985)
All You Who Sleep Tonight (poems) (1990)
Three Chinese Poets (poems) (1991)
Beastly Tales (poems) (1992)
The Poems 1981-1994 (poems) (1995)
The Collected Poems (poems) (1999)
Ox-Tales: Earth (2009) (with Kate Atkinson, Jonathan Buckley, Jonathan Coe, Hanif Kureishi, Marti Leimbach, Marina Lewycka, Ian Rankin, Nicholas Shakespeare and Rose Tremain)
Ox-Tales:Air (2009) (with Diran Adebayo, Beryl Bainbridge, Helen Fielding, A L Kennedy, Alexander McCall Smith, D B C Pierre, Kamila Shamsie, Helen Simpson and Louise Welsh)
Ox-Tales:Fire (2009) (with Geoff Dyer, Sebastian Faulks, Mark Haddon, Victoria Hislop, John Le Carré, Lionel Shriver, Ali Smith, William Sutcliffe, Jeanette Winterson and Xiaolu Guo)
Ox-Tales:Water (2009) (with William Boyd, Michel Faber, Giles Foden, Esther Freud, Zoë Heller, Heri Kunzu, Michael Morpurgo and David Park)
The Rivered Earth (poems) (2011)
Summer Requiem (poems) (2015)
Chapbooks
Picture Books
Vikram Seth recommends
Chowringhee (1962)
Sankar
"I read Chowringhee many years ago in a Hindi translation and lost myself in it for days. It was a wonderful experience - both gripping and moving. I... hope [this english translation] gets the wide readership it deserves."
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