Dom Moraes

Dominic Francis Moraes ( born July 19, 1938 in Mumbai, India, † June 2, 2004 ) was an Indian writer, poet and journalist.

Moraes was born as the son of the former newspaper publisher of the Indian Express, Frank Moraes, 1938 in Mumbai, India. At the age of 12 he wrote his first poem. Through his father, he traveled as a child in Sri Lanka, Australia, New Zealand and the entire South Asian region.

His first book of poetry entitled A Beginning Moraes 1958 brought out at Parton Press in London. This work won Moraes, who published more than 30 books, at the age of only 19 years, the renowned English Hawthornden Prize ( "the best work of the imagination" ). He remains the first foreigner and also the youngest ever winner, who won this award. 1960 his second " rhyme book " for the Autumn Choice ( Autumn Range ) of the Poetry Book Society has been selected. In 1965, then appeared under the title John Nobody his third " rhyme book ".

Moraes lived a long time abroad. During this time he gave magazines in London, Hong Kong and New York out, worked as a war correspondent, wrote screenplays and directed more than 20 documentaries the BBC and ITV He also wrote during this period, numerous books of poems, fictional books and travelogues, and was frequent contributor to the newspaper Afternoon.

In 1976, the recognized Indian writer who wrote primarily in English, an ambassador of the United Nations. In 1979, Moraes returned to India. There he published in 1983 the privately printed book of poems Absences and 1987 appeared a collection of poems ( Collected Poems ).

Together with Sarya Srivastava he wrote or co -author of Out of God 's Oven: Travels in a Fractured Country in 1992 appeared and The Long Strider, released in 2003 One of his many works is the biography of Mrs Gandhi, a biography of the Prime Minister of India, Indira. Gandhi.

Dom Moraes died in 2004 at the age of 65 years at his residence in Bandra area of Mumbai city in India after a long battle with cancer as a result of a heart attack in his sleep. Moraes was survived by his only son S. Moraes, who lives in the UK.