Vikram Seth CBE, FRSL (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has received several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Academy Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award. Seth's collections of poetry such as Mappings and Beastly Tales are notable contributions to the Indian English language poetry canon.
Bibliography
Novels
- The Golden Gate (1986)
- A Suitable Boy (1993)
- An Equal Music (1999)
Poetry
- Mappings (1980)
- The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985)
- All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990)
- Beastly Tales (1991)
- Three Chinese Poets (1992)
- The Frog and the Nightingale (1994)
- Summer Requiem: A Book of Poems (2015)
Children's fiction
- Arion and the Dolphin (1994)
Non-fiction
- From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983)
- Two Lives (2005)
- The Rivered Earth (2011)
Appearances in poetry anthologies
- The Golden Treasure of Writers Workshop Poetry. Ed. Rubana Huq. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 2008.
- The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets. Ed. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992.