CBSE Class 10 Answered
Vikram Seth is an Indian novelist and a poet born on 20 June 1952. He has written several novels and penned six volumes of poetry. Seth has travelled far and wide and lived in Britain, California, India and China. The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse (1986) was his first novel. A Suitable Boy (1993) and An Equal Music (1999) are some of his famous novels. The first volume of poetry that Seth wrote was Mappings (1980). It includes translations of work by Chinese, German and Hindi poets. He also wrote The Frog and the Nightingale (1994), Beastly Tales (1991), and Three Chinese Poets (1992). In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Shri in Literature & Education.
Vikram Seth is an Indian novelist and a poet born on 20 June 1952. He has written several novels and penned six volumes of poetry. Seth has travelled far and wide and lived in Britain, California, India and China. The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse (1986) was his first novel. A Suitable Boy (1993) and An Equal Music (1999) are some of his famous novels. The first volume of poetry that Seth wrote was Mappings (1980). It includes translations of work by Chinese, German and Hindi poets. He also wrote The Frog and the Nightingale (1994), Beastly Tales (1991), and Three Chinese Poets (1992). In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Shri in Literature & Education.