Pico Iyer

Quick Facts

Full Name	Pico Iyer
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Feb 11, 1957(1957-02-11)
Age	67
Birthplace	Oxford
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Oxford
Horoscope	Aquarius

Pico Iyer Biography

Pico Iyer is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on February 11, 1957 in Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer (born 11 February 1957), known as Pico Iyer, is a British- born essayist and novelist, often known 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. An essayist for Time since 1986, he also publishes regularly in Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and other publications.

Iyer has written numerous pieces on world affairs for Time, including 10 cover stories, and the “Woman of the Year” story on Corazon Aquino in 1986. He has written on literature for The New York Review of Books; on globalism for Harper’s; on travel for the Financial Times; and on many other themes for The New York Times, National Geographic, The Times Literary Supplement, contributing up to a hundred articles a year to various publications. He has contributed liner-notes for four Leonard Cohen albums. His books have appeared in 23 languages so far {see list on picoiyerjourneys.com website], includingTurkish, Russian, and Indonesian, and he has written introductions to more than 70 [see list on picoiyerjourneys.com books, including works by Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, Michael Ondaatje, Peter Matthiessen, and Isamu Noguchi. He also writes regularly on sport, film, and religion — and especially on the places where mysticism and globalism converge.

Iyer’s writing goes back and forth between the monastery and the airport — “Thomas Merton on a frequent flier pass,” as the Indian writer Pradeep Sebastian has written — and aims, perhaps, to bring new global energies and possibilities into non-fiction. The Utne Reader named him in 1995 as one of 100 Visionaries worldwide who could change your life, while the New Yorker observed that “As a guide to far-flung places, Pico Iyer can hardly be surpassed.”

Having grown up a part of — and apart from — English, American and Indian cultures, he became one of the first writers to take the international airport itself as his subject, along with the associated jet lag, displacement and cultural minglings. He writes often of his delight in living between the cracks and outside fixed categories. Most of his books have been about trying to see from within some society or way of life — revolutionary Cuba, Sufism, Buddhist Kyoto, even global disorientation — but from the larger perspective an outsider can sometimes bring. “I am simply a fairly typical product of a movable sensibility,” he wrote in 1993 in Harper’s, “living and working in a world that is itself increasingly small and increasingly mongrel. I am a multinational soul on a multinational globe on which more and more countries are as polyglot and restless as airports. Taking planes seems as natural to me as picking up the phone or going to school; I fold up my self and carry it around as if it were an overnight bag.”

He taught writing and literature at Harvard before joining Time in 1982 as a writer on world affairs. Since then he has travelled widely, from North Korea to Easter Island, and from Paraguay to Ethiopia, while writing thirteen {see list of books in most recent work, A Beginner’s Guide to Japan] works of non- fiction and two novels, including Video Night in Kathmandu (1988), The Lady and the Monk (1991), The Global Soul (2000) and The Man Within My Head (2012). He is also a frequent speaker at literary festivals and universities around the world. He delivered popular TED talks in 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2019 [ see ted.com] and has twice been a Fellow at the World Economic Forum in Davos. He appeared in a commercial for “Incredible India” in 2007.

Pico Iyer Net Worth

Pico Iyer is one of the richest Novelist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Pico Iyer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

When Iyer was seven, in 1964, his father started working with Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, a California-based think tank, so the family also moved to California, as his father started teaching at University of California, Santa Barbara (1965–1986). Thus for more than a decade Iyer moved back and forth several times a year between schools and college in England and his parents’ home in California.

Pico Iyer has known the 14th Dalai Lama since he was in his late teens, when he accompanied his father to Dharamshala, India, in 1974. In discussions about his spirituality, Iyer has mentioned not having a formal meditation practice, but practicing regular solitude, visiting a remote Benedictine hermitage near Big Sur several times a year.

Pico Iyer has been based since 1992 in Nara, Japan, where he lives with his Japanese wife, Hiroko Takeuchi, the “Lady” of his second book, and her two children from his wife’s earlier marriage. Iyer’s family home in Santa Barbara burned down due to a wildfire in 1990, a biographical landmark that perhaps confirmed his lifelong peripatetic perspective on ‘being at home’ in general. In his literary essays and TED-Talks, he repeatedly said: “For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil, than you could say, with a piece of soul.”

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Who is Pico Iyer Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Pico Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Pico Iyer celebrates birthday on February 11 of every year.

Top Facts about Pico Iyer

1. Pico Iyer is a British-born essayist and novelist.
2. He was born in Oxford, England in 1957.
3. Iyer has written over a dozen books.
4. His works have been translated into more than 20 languages.
5. He has contributed to publications such as Time, The New Yorker, and Harper’s Magazine.
6. Iyer is known for his travel writing and cultural commentary.
7. He has lived in various countries including Japan and the United States.
8. Iyer is a frequent speaker at conferences and events around the world.
9. He has won numerous awards for his writing, including the Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism.
10. In addition to his writing career, Iyer is also a respected lecturer on spirituality and mindfulness practices.

Is Pico Iyer Indian?

Iyer was born Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer in Oxford, England, the son of Indian parents. His father was Raghavan N. Iyer, a philosopher and political theorist then enrolled in doctoral studies at the University of Oxford. His mother is the religious scholar Nandini Nanak Mehta.

Did Pico Iyer marry Sachiko?

In Autumn Light, Iyer’s fourteenth book, Sachiko is now his wife Hiroko , his wanderings continue, and his gentle epiphanies still arrive unanticipated. Their marriage and family life form the core of the narrative.

Why do we travel Pico Iyer?

We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again — to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

How old is Pico Iyer?

65 years (February 11, 1957)

Where was Pico Iyer born?

Oxford, United Kingdom