Pico Iyer

A traveler from birth, Pico Iyer's is today recognised as one of the best writers on societies and people.

Full name:

Pico Iyer

DOB:

1957

Place of birth:

England

Nationality:

-

Family:

Parents

: Father Tamil. Mother Gujarati

Wife

: Japanese

Children:

two

School

: in England

University:

in US

Profession

: Author

Other work:

Worked for four years in

Time

, also written for

Harper's, The New York Times, Sports illustrated

and

The New York Review of Books.

The eternal outsider. A traveler from birth. Pico Iyer's life has exemplified these to the extent that today he is recognized as one of the best observers of society and people.

Born in England to Indian parents, he was conscious of being different from an early age. As his parents also shuttled between UK and US, he assimilated the cultures at an early age. He has since then married a Japanese and lives in Japan.

Writing about people and places, which he brings alive with his acute observation and sharp retelling, has seen him being acknowledged as one of the foremost travel writers alive, and hardly any travel anthology is complete without a piece by him.

Starting with Video Night in Katmandu, which looks at Asian places, cities and islands in a way that as few had ever before him, to The Lady and the Monk, an amazing account of his year in Japan, his travelogues have had a freshness that has drawn the reader into exploring places far and wide.

In The Global Soul, he explores our rapidly merging cultures. He begins his journey at the Los Angles International Airport (LAX), a complex hub, where he ends up virtually living for a few days.

When not on travel to another mysterious land, he divides his time between his homes in California, US and Japan.

Bibliography
2004
Sun After Dark: Flights into the Foreign
2003
Abandon
A Romance Living Faith: Windows into the Sacred Life of India
2002
The Inland Sea
2001
The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
1998
Travelers' Tales - A Dog's World
Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions
1994
Falling Off the Map : Some Lonely Places of The World
1992
The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
1989
Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East