biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1952– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, poet, and travel-writer, born in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), E India. He studied at Oxford, Stanford, and Nanjing universities. In 1983 he won the Thomas Cook Travel Book award for From Heaven Lake, an account of his journey through Sinkiang and Tibet to Nepal. His novel A Suitable Boy (1993), one of the longest works of fiction in English, examines the lives of four families against the background of a turbulent post-independence India. His other writing includes the poetry collections Mappings (1980) and Beastly Tales from Here and There (1992), and the novel An Equal Music (1999). |
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