Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth was born in Calcutta on 20 June 1952, the son of an executive of the Bata shoe company and of Leila Seth, the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court. Educated at the Doon School, he studied at Oxford, then economics at Stanford, where he abandoned his doctorate, and spent two years at Nanjing University, from where he returned to India through Sinkiang and Tibet. He translated three classical Chinese poets and wrote an opera libretto for the English National Opera. He lives between India and England, in the former home of the poet George Herbert.

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• NovelThe Golden GateVikram Seth · 1986Literature