Pico Iyer

Pico Iyer
Iyer in 2012
Iyer in 2012
BornSiddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer[1]
(1957-02-11) 11 February 1957 (age 67)[2]
Oxford, England
OccupationEssayist, novelist
GenreNon-fiction/fiction
Notable awardsGuggenheim Fellowship, 2005 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Chapman University 2017.
RelativesRaghavan N. Iyer (father, deceased)
Nandini Iyer (mother, deceased[3])
Hiroko Takeuchi (wife)
Website
picoiyerjourneys.com

Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer (born 11 February 1957), known as Pico Iyer, is a British-born essayist and novelist known chiefly for his [writing on explorations both inner and outer [4]]. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul. He has been a constant [5] contributor to Time, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times, among a huge selection of other periodicals [6]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference UofC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference national12 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ see Santa Barbara Independent July 29, 2021
  4. ^ since a best-selling meditation on the Dalai Lama and another on The Art of Stillness hardly count as travel writing
  5. ^ see archives of all these magazines: weekly pieces for Time since 1983, pieces for Harper’s from 1991 till 2023, pieces for The New York Review from 1995 to 2017, pieces for the New York Times frequently since 1989 or so
  6. ^ see Pico Iyer Journeys website, listing 250 other magazines and newspapers to which he has contributed original pieces

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