Vikram Seth

Indian novelist and poet · India · Writers · Born 1952 · age 74

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1999“What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.”In their wordsAn Equal Music (1999) 8.6Read the whole statement

1994Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward1993“Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.”In their wordsA Suitable Boy (1993) 17.4Read the whole statement

1990“All you who sleep tonight / Far from the ones you love, / No hands to left or right, / And emptiness above - Know that you aren’t alone.”In their words"All You Who Sleep Tonight", All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990)Read the whole statement

“Imagining the flower-pot attacked it / The kitten flung the violets near and far / And yet, who knows? This morning, as I backed it, / My car was set upon by a parked car.”In their words"Malefic Things", All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990)Read the whole statement

1988Sahitya Akademi Award in EnglishAward1986“In life's brief game to be a winner / A man must have...oh yes, above / All else, of course, someone to love.”In their words6.13Read the whole statement

“Catholic and Episcopalian, / Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, / Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, atheist, / We are all here; no one is alien / Now radiation's common laws”In their words7.20Read the whole statement

1952Born20 June 1952

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Vikram Seth

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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
1999, An Equal Music (1999) 7.5, Own words
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
1999, An Equal Music (1999) 8.6, Own words
You too will marry a boy I choose,' said Mrs Rupa Mehra firmly to her younger daughter.
1993, A Suitable Boy (1993) 1.1, Own words

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Awards

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature1994

Sahitya Akademi Award in English1988

Guggenheim Fellowship

Padma Shri in literature and education

Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize

Pravasi Bharatiya Samman

In their orbit

Mother: Leila Seth

About this person

Vikram Seth is an Indian novelist and poet. The author of three novels and several collections of poetry, he is a recipient of the Padma Shri, a Sahitya Akademi Award, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, the WH Smith Literary Award and the Crossword Book Award. Seth's collections of poetry such as Mappings and Beastly Tales are notable contributions to the Indian English language poetry canon, and he is regarded as the greatest Indian writer in English of all time.

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India

In common with Vikram

Nayantara SahgalBoth received Sahitya Akademi Award in English Kamala SurayyaBoth received Sahitya Akademi Award in English

Helen DunmoreBoth received Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize

R. K. NarayanBoth received Sahitya Akademi Award in English

Geoffrey HillBoth received Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize Anuradha RoyBoth received Sahitya Akademi Award in English

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