Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth (2012)

Vikram Seth ( Bengali বিক্রম সেঠ , Bikram Seṭh; born June 20, 1952 in Kolkata ) is an Indian writer .

He grew up in Kolkata and attended English-speaking schools there. His mother was the first female judge in India's Supreme Court. He later went to college in Oxford , where he studied philosophy , politics and economics . He received a master's degree in economics from Stanford University in California . Then he went to Nanjing (China) and studied Chinese literature.

He gathered his own literary inspiration in his homeland by traveling through the Indian subcontinent and studying the way of life of his compatriots, especially the lower classes of the population. This gave rise to his 1993 published, monumental novel A suitable boy (dt. A Suitable Boy , 1995). The almost 2,000-page epic is a love story set in post-colonial India between passion and tradition. Seth designed his novel in the opulent style of the Russian writers of the 19th century and was therefore able to present the conflicts within India in a broad and vivid manner.

In 2007 he was honored with the Padma Shri .

In September 2006, Vikram Seth started an initiative in India by leading Indian writers, artists, academics and lawyers for the abolition of Indian criminal law section 377, which punishes homosexual acts with up to ten years in prison.

Works

Novels

  • 1986 - The Golden Gate
  • 1993 - A Suitable Boy
    • German, translated by Annette Grube: A good game . Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3596165131
  • 1999 - An Equal Music (Related Voices)

Poems

  • 1980 - mappings
  • 1985 - The Humble Administrator's Garden
  • 1990 - All You Who Sleep Tonight
  • 1991 - Beastly Tales
  • 1992 - Three Chinese Poets

Children's books

  • 1991 - Beastly Tales

libretto

  • 1994 - Arion and the Dolphin for the English National Opera

Non-fiction

  • 1983 - From Heaven Lake.
    • German, translated by Annette Grube: Tianchi: On the way in China and Tibet. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-16473-8 .
  • 2005 - Two Lives.
    • German, translated by Annette Grube: Zwei Leben. Portrait of a love. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16478-3 .

source

  1. Fischer publishers: Vikram Seth, author, Vita. In: https://www.fischerverlage.de . Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  2. http://www.queer.de/news_detail.php?article_id=5591

Web links

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