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BY :-Durgada SagarChris ThomasKushal KumarRahul . I

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Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet.He has written several novel and poetry books.He has received several awards including Padma Shri, Pravasi Bharatiya

Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award.

Vikram Seth signing autographs at Bangla Academy, Dhaka on 17 November 2012

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Seth was born on 20 June 1952 in a Punjabi family

to Leila and Prem Seth in Kolkata.

Seth spent part of his youth in London and returned

to his homeland in 1957. He received primary

education at Welham Boys' School and then moved

to The Doon School. While at Doon, Seth was the

editor-in-chief of The Doon School Weekly.

Prem Seth

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After graduating from The Doon School in India, Seth went to Tonbridge School, England to complete his A-levels, 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

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,

Stanford University Tonbridge School

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His younger brother, Shantum, leads Buddhist

meditational tours. His younger sister, Aradhana, is a

filmmaker married to an Austrian diplomat and has

worked on Deepa Mehta's movies Earth and Fire.

Shantum Seth Aradhana Seth

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HE TOOK HIS

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE IN

PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS AND

ECONOMICS FROM OXFORD

UNIVERSITY.

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• HE WAS ENROLLED IN POSTGRADUATE

ECONOMICS COURSES AT STANFORD

UNIVERSITY AND WAS ALSO ATTACHED TO

NANJING UNIVERSITY FOR HIS INTENDED

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION ON CHINESE

POPULATION PLANNING.

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• AFTER LEAVING OXFORD, SETH MOVED TO

CALIFORNIA TO WORK ON A GRADUATE DEGREE IN

ECONOMICS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY.

. ALONG WITH THIS, HE DID HIS POETIC STUDIES AS

WALLACE STEGNER FELLOW IN CREATIVE WRITING

(1977-1978).

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• WHILE AT STANFORD, HE ALSO STUDIED

MANDARIN LANGUAGE.

• HE TRANSLATED HINDI AND CHINESE

POETRY INTO ENGLISH

• HE RETURNED TO DELHI VIA XINJIANG AND

TIBET WHICH LED TO A TRAVEL NARRATIVE

FROM HEAVEN LAKE: TRAVELS THROUGH

SINKIANG AND TIBET (1983) WHICH WON

THE THOMAS COOK TRAVEL BOOK AWARD.

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• HE THEN STUDIED PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, AND

ECONOMICS AT CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD,

WHERE HE DEVELOPED AN INTEREST IN POETRY AND

LEARNED CHINESE.

• THE PROSE NOVEL ’A SUITABLE BOY’ (1993), FOR

WHICH HE SPENT EIGHT YEARS IN NEW DELHI WRITING

AND RESEARCHING.

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Beastly Tales

Beastly Tales (poems) is a 1991 collection of ten fables in poetry written

by Vikram Seth. The Contents of Beastly Tales are:-

1. The Crocodile and the Monkey

2. The Louse and the Mosquito

3. The Mouse and the Snake

4. The Rat and the Ox

5. The Eagle and the Beetle

6. The Hare and the Tortoise

7. The Cat and the Cock

8. The Goat and the Ram

9. The Frog and the Nightingale

10. The Elephant and the Tragopan

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AWARDS OF VIKRAM SETH

Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novel and poetry books. He has received

several awards including Padma Shri, Pravasi BharatiyaSamman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award.

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• 1994 – WH Smith Literary Award A Suitable Boy

• 1999 – Crossword Book Award An Equal Music

• 2001 – EMMA (BT Ethnic and Multicultural Media Award) for Best Book/Novel An Equal Music

• 2005 – Pravasi Bharatiya Samman

• 2007 – Padma Shri in Literature & Education

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•Vikram Seth's first novel, "The Golden Gate" (1986), describes the experiences of a group of friends living in California. His other novel, "A Suitable Boy" (1993) is an acclaimed epic of Indian life. The novel won the WH Smith Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers

Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book).

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