Dom Moraes
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Dominic Francis Moraes (July 19, 1938 - June 2, 2004), popularly known as Dom Moraes was an Indian writer, poet and columnist. He published nearly 30 books.
Dom Moraes was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) to Beryl and Frank Moraes, former editor of Indian Express. He spent eight years in Britain, living in London and Oxford (where he studied at the university and was a member of Jesus College), but spent most of his life in Mumbai, a city he detested. He married the Indian actress Leela Naidu and then separated from her.
He edited magazines in London, Hong Kong and New York. He became the editor of The Asia Magazine in 1971. He scripted and partially directed over 20 television documentaries for the BBC and ITV. He was a war correspondent in Algeria, Israel and Vietnam. In 1976 he joined the United Nations.
Dom Moraes was an alumnus of St. Mary's High School(ISC), Mazagoan, Mumbai.
Moraes conducted one of the first interviews of the Dalai Lama after the Tibetan spiritual leader fled to India in 1959. The Dalai Lama was then 23 and Moraes was 20.
Dom Moraes was suffering from cancer but refused to take treatment. He died of heart-attack in Bandra, Mumbai.
[edit] Bibliography
- A Beginning (1958), his first book of poems (winner of the Hawthornden Prize)
- Poems (1960), his second book of poems
- Gone Away: An Indian Journey (1960), memoir
- John Nobody (1965), his third book of poems
- Beldam & Others (1967), a pamphlet of verse
- Absences (1983), book of poems
- Collected Poems (1987)
- Out of God's Oven: Travels in a Fractured Land (1992), co-author Sarayu Srivatsa
- The Long Strider (2003), co-author Sarayu Srivatsa
- Heiress to Destiny, biography of Indira Gandhi
- Never at Home, memoir
- My Son's Father, memoir
[edit] Awards and recognitions
- Hawthornden Prize for the best work of the imagination, 1958, for the book of poems A Beginning
- Autumn Choice of the Poetry Book Society for Poems (1960)
