14 Facts About Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth was born on 20 June 1952 and is an Indian novelist and poet.

Vikram Seth has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award.

Vikram Seth's father, Prem Nath Seth, was an executive of Bata Shoes and his mother, Leila Seth, a Barrister by training, became the first female judge of the Delhi High Court and first woman to become Chief justice of a state High Court in India.

Vikram Seth was educated at the all-boys' private boarding school The Doon School in Dehradun, where he was editor-in-chief of The Doon School Weekly.

Vikram Seth has published eight books of poetry and three novels.

Vikram Seth's work Two Lives, published in 2005, is a memoir of the marriage of his great-uncle and aunt.

Vikram Seth has written a travel book, From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet, an account of a journey through Tibet, China and Nepal.

Vikram Seth was commissioned by the English National Opera to write a libretto based on the Greek legend of Arion and the Dolphin.

Vikram Seth later explained to Gordon that he had passed the interview not because of commercial considerations, but because unlike the others he was the only agent who seemed as interested in his poetry as in his other writing.

Vikram Seth prepared an acrostic poem for his address at Gordon's 2005 memorial service.

Vikram Seth commented on the Indian general elections held during the summer of 2024 saying that "we live in a better situation now than we lived a month ago".

Vikram Seth made this comment less than a month after the elections were over and a new coalition government had been sworn in.

Vikram Seth was in a relationship with the violinist Philippe Honore for ten years and dedicated his novel An Equal Music to him.

When Section 377 was reinstated in 2013, Vikram Seth continued campaigning against the law.