Pico Iyer

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Pico Iyer (born 1957) is a British-born journalist and author.

Iyer was born in England to Indian parents. His father, Raghavan Iyer, a Rhodes Scholar and expert on Mahatma Gandhi, taught at University of California, Santa Barbara for twenty years. Iyer lived in California in his childhood but returned to England as a teenager, where he was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and went on to pursue a globetrotting career as a reporter, essayist, and novelist. He has filed stories from the all over the world, including such far-flung locales as Bhutan, Nepal, Ethiopia, Cuba, Argentina, and even North Korea. Today, he lives and works much of the year in Japan.

Describing himself as "a global village on two legs," Pico Iyer considers himself a citizen of the world. "I am simply a fairly typical product of a movable sensibility," he once wrote 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."Template:Citeneeded

Pico Iyer works as a freelance journalist, and has contributed to publications such as Time Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, and The New York Review of Books. In a Time article in the leadup to the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Iyer's exhaustive study of South Korea helped lift the veil on the quiet transformation of what many people remembered as an impoverished third-world country into the world's eleventh largest economy.Template:Citeneeded

Iyer sees himself more as an international traveller than an Indian writer. The Utne Reader has lauded him for "elevating travel reportage to new heights," while the Los Angeles Times has called him "the rightful heir to Jan Morris, Paul Theroux, and company."Template:Citeneeded

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