{"id":244238,"date":"2009-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vo.hollands-spoor.com\/schrijvers\/vikram-seth\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:16:57","slug":"vikram-seth","status":"publish","type":"oorschot_writer","link":"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/en\/writers\/vikram-seth\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikram Seth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vikram Seth werd geboren in India in 1952. Hij studeerde filosofie, politicologie en economie in Oxford, en later in Stanford en Nanjing. Hij schreef drie romans: <em>A Suitable Boy<\/em> (1993), <em>The Golden Gate<\/em> (1986) (<em>De Golden Gate<\/em>) en <em>An Equal Music<\/em> (1999) (<em>Verwante stemmen<\/em>). Verder publiceerde hij vijf dichtbundels en een reisverslag. Medio 2005 verscheen een nieuw boek van zijn hand waarvan de\u00a0titel luidt <em>Two lives<\/em>, in Nederland verschenen onder de titel <em>Twee levens<\/em>. Het is het levensverhaal van zijn oom Shanti en zijn tante Henny Cairo, een joodse vrouw die &#8216;Shanti-oom&#8217; begin jaren dertig in Berlijn leerde kennen toen hij daar tandheelkunde studeerde.<br \/>\nSeth&#8217;s magnum opus <em>A Suitable Boy<\/em> verscheen in het voorjaar van 2008 in de vertaling van Christien Jonkheer en Babet Mossel onder de titel <em>De geschikte jongen<\/em> (ruim 1400 pagina&#8217;s dundruk).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vikram Seth werd geboren in India in 1952. Hij studeerde filosofie, politicologie en economie in Oxford, en later in Stanford en Nanjing. Hij schreef drie romans: A Suitable Boy (1993), The Golden Gate (1986) (De Golden Gate) en An Equal Music (1999) (Verwante stemmen). Verder publiceerde hij vijf dichtbundels en een reisverslag. 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