Pico Iyer
Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer, known as Pico Iyer, is an English-born essayist and novelist known chiefly for his travel writing. 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 contributor to Time, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times.
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- Oxford
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- Harvard UniversityMagdalen CollegeEton CollegeDragon School
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- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship
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1957
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