{"id":48,"date":"2007-09-20T21:36:50","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T21:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage5\/2007\/09\/14\/profile-vikram-seth\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T21:23:28","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T21:23:28","slug":"profile-vikram-seth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage5\/2007\/09\/profile-vikram-seth\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile: Vikram Seth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[photopress:Cobbing6679.jpg,full,pp_image]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vikram Seth<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Writer (UK\/India)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Vikram trained as an economist. His first novel, <em>The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse<\/em> describes the experiences of a group of friends living in California. His acclaimed epic of Indian life, <em>A Suitable Boy<\/em>, won the WH Smith Literary\u00a0Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book). He is also the author of the novel <em>An Equal Music<\/em> and the biography <em>Two Lives<\/em>, as well as <em>Beastly Tales<\/em>, a book of ten animal fables in verse, which includes the ecological tale \u2018<em>The Elephant and the Tragopan\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People need to know about what is being lost, and I think it is an inspired idea to get sculptors or writers or photographers or other artists to come on what is largely a scientific expedition.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Vikram Seth<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[photopress:Cobbing6679.jpg,full,pp_image] Vikram Seth Writer (UK\/India) Vikram trained as an economist. His first novel, The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse describes the experiences of a group of friends living in California. His acclaimed epic of Indian life, A Suitable Boy, won the WH Smith Literary\u00a0Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book). He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}