Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth is an author. For more than twenty years, he has published novels, collections of poems, memoirs, biographies, and other works. His first book, From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet, was published in 1983 and provides an autobiographical account of his travels through China and Nepal. Mr. Seth's most recent novel, Two Lives, which was published in October of 2005, is a non-fiction biographical family memoir. The book tells the story of Mr. Seth's great uncle and German-Jewish great aunt who met in Berlin in the early 1930's. Mr. Seth has received numerous literary awards for his novels and poems. Originally from Calcutta, Mr. Seth splits his time between Dehli and Salisbury, England. He holds a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University.