Vikram Seth

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Born	June 20, 1952 (age 72) • Kolkata • India
Notable Works	“A Suitable Boy” • “All You Who Sleep Tonight” • “Beastly Tales from Here and There” • “From Heaven Lake” • “Mappings” • “The Golden Gate” • “The Humble Administrator’s Garden”

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Indian author

Anita Desai

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D.H. Lawrence

English writer

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Rudyard Kipling

British writer

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Graham Greene

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Lawrence Durrell

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Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy

Indian author, actress, and activist

R.K. Narayan

R.K. Narayan

Indian author

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet

Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo

Indian philosopher and yogi

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

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Nayantara Sahgal

Indian journalist and author

Mulk Raj Anand

Mulk Raj Anand

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Bhai Vir Singh

Indian writer and theologian

Meena Alexander

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John Banim

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

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