Vikram Seth:
Vikram Seth Born in 1952 in Calcutta, India, Vikram Seth was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Stanford University and Nanjing University. He has travelled widely and lived in Britain, California, India and China. His first novel, The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse (1986), describes the experiences of a group of friends living in California. His acclaimed epic of Indian life, A Suitable Boy (1993), won the WH Smith Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book). Set in India in the early 1950s, it is the story of a young girl, Lata, and her search for a husband. An Equal Music (1999), is the story of a violinist haunted by the memory of a former lover. Vikram Seth is also the author of a travel book, From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983), an account of a journey through Tibet, China and Nepal that won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, and a libretto, Arion and the Dolphin: A Libretto (1994), which was performed at the English National Opera in June 1994, with music by Alec Roth. His poetry includes Mappings (1980), The Humble Administrator’s Garden (1985), winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia), and All You Who Sleep Tonight: Poems (1990). His children’s book, Beastly Tales from Here and There (1992), consists of ten stories about animals told in verse. Vikram Seth’s latest work is Two Lives (2005), a memoir of the marriage of his great uncle and aunt. Top of page Genres (in alphabetical order) Children, Fiction, Libretto, Poetry, Translation, Travel Bibliography Mappings Writer’s Workshop (Calcutta) (re-issued Viking 1994), 1980 From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet Chatto & Windus, 1983 The Humble Administrator’s Garden Carcanet, 1985 The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse Faber and Faber, 1986 All You Who Sleep Tonight: Poems Faber and Faber, 1990 Beastly Tales from Here and There (illustrated by Ravi Shankar, re-issued Phoenix House 2002) Phoenix House, 1992 Three Chinese Poets: Translations of Poems by Wang Wei, Li Bai and Du Fu Faber and Faber, 1992 A Suitable Boy Phoenix House, 1993 Arion and the Dolphin: A Libretto Phoenix House, 1994 An Equal Music Phoenix House, 1999 Two Lives Time Warner, 2005
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William Dalrymple :
William Dalrymple visited India, Hyderabad on 2nd Feb 2010, it was a pleasant outing for his fan club, he read out extracts from his latest bestseller Nine Lives: In search of the sacred in modern India. The Book tells in detail the extraordinary story of nine individuals who take to different religious paths. The fan club was overjoyed when he read out the travails of Rani Bai. The session was organised by Manthan, the forum for public discourse.
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Jeffrey Archer:
Jeffrey Archer, unofficial king of fiction, during his recent trip to india, talks about length about cricket, India and Bollywood. Actually he is in India to hunt for a director who could adapt one of his bestsellers into a movie, and to launch the 30th anniversary of Kane and Abel, his chart-topping novel.
When interviewed , he expressed his views about the Indian youngsters and the middle-class family, very positively.
While talking about his 30 th anniversary issue of Kane and Abel, he said that kane and abel was the breakthrough and remains the most popular till date. He admits by saying that though the considerable changes are been made in the rewritten kane and abel, the plot and the characters have not changed at all.
His new writing, set of short stories called”And Thereby Hangs A Tale” will be published in may 2010. One of the stories, ‘Caste Off’ will be ideal for a Bollywood film, he added.
His all time favourite is “The Counte of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas”.
Though there are many famous writers in India, His favourite Indian writer is R.K. Narayan, the reason is that the combination of a good storyteller and a good writer is extremely rare to find.
J.K. Rowling works on Two more new books:
After getting worldwide attention and winning multiple awards for her Harry Potter series the English writer, J.K.Rowling has once again made herself busy in penning down two new books. The millionaire writer is not set to take a break after her final novel of the Harry Potter series that was released just a few days back.
Currently she is working on one book for adults and one for children. She discloses that this time too she has started writing the same way as she had begun writing Harry, as that time also she had worked on two simultaneous projects.
It’s because of her Harry Potter books that she owns a great fortune. She is the 136th richest person in the world and also happens to be the 13th richest woman in Britain. Her last book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has become the fastest selling book of all time.
