Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth is an Indian novelist and poet, born in 1952, whose work includes the novel A Suitable Boy, set in India in the early 1950s. He has also written the novels An Equal Music and The Golden Gate, the travel book From Heaven Lake, and the memoir Two Lives, along with poetry collections such as Mappings and Beastly Tales. Seth has received the Padma Shri and a Sahitya Akademi Award.