Pico iyer biography for kids

Pico Iyer Biography

Pico Iyer is a renowned author of international acclaim. He is of Indian origin with roots from Gujarat, but born and brought up in England. He writes books on crossing cultures in English language, and some of his major works include - Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul.

He also publishes columns regularly in different forms of international publications.  He is a fourth generation member of famous Gujarati educationalist, writer and social reformer - Mahipatram Rupram Nilkanth.

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Many of his family writers are well-known writers and social workers, and Pico Iyer represents the present generation.

 

His full name is Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer. He was born in Oxford, England on 11 February 1957.

The author of essays and novels, his father was Raghavan N. Iyer, an Oxford philosopher and political theorist, while his mother is the religious scholar Nandini Nanak Mehta. Both his parents grew up in India, bu