Background
Seth was born & raised around Kolkata. His father Prem was the shoe company executive. His mother, Leila, was the foremost woman judge on the Delhi High Court when well as a foremost woman to turn into Chief Justice of a provincial Supreme court.

He was educated at The Doon School and Tonbridge School and read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) as an undergraduate at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

He next enrolled at Stanford University where he has stated that he spent "11 years (from 1975 to 1986) not getting an economics Ph.D." From 1977-78 he attend Tibet and China on a Stegner Fellowship in which he exposed authoritative Chinese poetry at Nanjing University [http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&repository=0001_article&id=12403].

An locate (in the season 2005) in the Australian magazine Good Weekend elaborate that Seth experienced exposed many languages, including Welsh, German and Mandarin Chinese, in addition to Hindi and English.

He presently sleep in Salisbury, England.

Writing
Seth is better known for his novels. A foremost one, The Golden Gate (1986), is the novel witharound verse just about a peoples of a total of immature agents in San Francisco. A novel is written completely inside riming tetrameter sonnets after the style established by Aleksandr Pushkin. When The Golden Gate was published, Seth began work in his 2nd novel, A Suitable Boy (1993). Though at first conceived as a short piece detailing a formative years of India after Independence, the novel grew & Seth was to labor above it for near the decade. A 1349-report novel occurs as personal saga placed around post-independence, post-Partition India, and it propelled Seth into a public spotlight. Seth's third novel, An Equal Music (1999), is set within contemporary Europe.

Vikram Seth received an advance of I.Three million pounds(just about Rs. Nina from carolina.Fin crores) from either a publishers of Instance Warner for his book, Two Lives, which was published in October, 2005.

The film of The Suitable Son is slated for release inside 2006.

Novels
An Equal Music, 1999 The Suitable Son, 1993 The Golden Gate (1986)

Poetry
Three Chinese Poets (1992) Beastly Tales (1991) All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990) ''The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985) Mappings (1980)

Libretto

Arion and the Dolphin (1994) for the English National Opera; published as an illustrated book.

Non-Fiction
Two Lives'', 2005