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Vikram Seth was born on 20 June 1952 in Calcutta. His father, Prem Nath Seth, was an executive of Bata Shoes and his mother, Leila Seth, a barrister by training, became the first female Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court
He studied at St. Michael's High School, Patna and at The Doon School in Dehradun, where he edited The Doon School Weekly. After graduating from Doon, Seth went to Tonbridge School, England, to complete his A-levels.He also studied at St. Xavier's High School, Patna. Later he moved to the United Kingdom and read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He then pursued a Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University though never completed it
Having lived in London for many years, Seth maintains residences near Salisbury, England, where he is a participant in local literary and cultural events, having bought and renovated the house of the Anglican poet George Herbert in 1996 and in Jaipur, India.
In 2006, he became a leader of the campaign against Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a law against sodomy. His mother has written about Seth's homosexuality and her coming to terms with it in her memoir
In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Shri in Literature & Education.Vikram Seth is an Indian novelist and a poet bornon 20 June 1952. He has written several novels and penned six volumes of poetry. ... The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse (1986) was his first novel
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