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Dom Moraes | |
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Born | Dominic Francis Moraes 19 July 1938 Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India |
Died | 2 June 2004 Bandra, Maharashtra, India | (aged 65)
Occupation | poet, novelist, columnist, director |
Language | English |
Nationality | Indian |
Education | Jesus College, Oxford |
Notable works | A Beginning (1958) Poems (1960) John Nobody (1965) My Son's Father (1968) Serendip (1990) |
Notable awards | Hawthornden Prize (1958) Sahitya Akademi Award for English (1994) |
Spouse | Henrietta Moraes (m. 1961) Judith Moraes Leela Naidu (1969–1992; separated) |
Partner | Sarayu Srivatsa[1] |
Children | Francis Moraes[1] |
Relatives | Frank Moraes (father) Beryl Moraes (mother) Teresa Albuquerque (aunt) |
Dominic Francis "Dom" Moraes (19 July 1938 – 2 June 2004) was an Indian writer and poet who wrote in the English language. He published nearly 30 books. Moraes is widely seen as a foundational figure in Indian English literature. His poems are a meaningful and substantial contribution to Indian and World literature.
Early life
Moraes was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) to Beryl and Frank Moraes, former editor of The Times of India. His aunt was the historian Teresa Albuquerque.[2] He attended the city's St. Mary's School and then left for England to enrol at Jesus College, Oxford.
Moraes spent eight years in Britain, in London and Oxford, New York City, Hong Kong, Delhi and Bombay now Mumbai.
Career
David Archer published his first collection of poems, A Beginning, in 1957. When he was 19, still an undergraduate, he became the first Indian to win the Hawthornden Prize and was presented with £100 and a silver medal by Lord David Cecil at the Arts Council of Britain on July 10, 1958.[3]
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.
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, 20.
Later life
He had a lifelong battle with alcoholism. Moraes suffered from cancer, but refused treatment and died from a heart attack in Bandra, Mumbai. He was buried in the city's Sewri Cemetery and as per his last wishes Sarayu Srivatsa buried the soil from his grave in Odcombe, Somerset, on 19 July 2002 (his birthdate).[4] Many of Dom's old friends and publishers attended the memorial service in Odcombe. A headstone in yellow Jaisalmer stone lies embedded in the front lawn of the Church of St Peter and St Paul to mark the service.[citation needed]
In 1961–62 he was one of the very few public Indian figures to strongly criticize the Indian Army takeover of Goa, land of his forefathers – Daman and Diu from Portuguese India. He tore up his Indian passport on TV in protest.[5] He was later allowed back in the country.
When the Gujarat riots erupted in 2002, with their heavy toll of Muslim dead, Moraes left for Ahmedabad the minute the news came through, saying that since he was a Catholic, Muslims would not see him as an enemy. Even though he was physically in considerable pain by then, he was one of the first on the scene.[1]
Moraes ended his writing career, writing books in collaboration with Sarayu Srivatsa.
Personal life
In 1956, aged 18, he was courted by Henrietta Moraes. They married in 1961. He left her, according to his close friends in London, but did not divorce her.[citation needed] He had a son, Francis Moraes, with his second wife Judith, whom he divorced and returned to India from England in 1968. In 1969, he married celebrated Indian actress and beauty Leela Naidu and they were a star couple, known across several continents, for over two decades. Their marriage ended in a separation.[6] He was in a live-in relationship with author Sarayu Srivatsa for the last 13 years of his life, with whom he co-authored two books.[1]
Bibliography
- 1957: A Beginning, his first book of poems (winner of the Hawthornden Prize in 1958)
- 1960: Poems, his second book of poems
- 1960: Gone Away: An Indian Journey, memoir
- 1965: John Nobody, his third book of poems
- 1967: Beldam & Others, a pamphlet of verse
- 1968: My Son's Father, autobiography
- 1983: Absences, book of poems
- 1987: Collected Poems: 1957-1987 (Penguin)
- 1990: Serendip (winner of the 1994 Sahitya Akademi Award)
- 1992: Out of God's Oven: Travels in a Fractured Land, co-authored with Sarayu Srivatsa
- 2003: The Long Strider, co-authored with Sarayu Srivatsa
- Heiress to Destiny, biography of Indira Gandhi
- Never at Home, memoir
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)
Appearances in the following poetry Anthologies
- The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets (1992) ed. by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi][7]
References
- ^ a b c d Brownjohn, Alan (4 June 2004). "Obituary: Dom Moraes". London: The Guardian.
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(help) - ^ Noronha, Frederick (12 June 2017). "Teresa Albuquerque, Historian of Colonial Bombay and the Goan Diaspora, is No More". The Wire. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- ^ "Hawthornden prize". The Hindu. 12 July 1958. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
- ^ Singh, Khushwant (13 October 2007). "Requiem to Dom Moraes". The Tribune.
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(help) - ^ http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/usual-suspects/sahgals-protest-stems-from-hatred-for-modi.html
- ^ "Leela Naidu personified grace and beauty". The Times of India. 29 July 2009.
- ^ "The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets". cse.iitk.ac.in. cse.iitk.ac.in. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
External links
- Ranjit Hoskote: Obituary for Dom Moraes, The Hindu, 13 June 2004.
- Archival Material at Leeds University Library
- 1938 births
- 2004 deaths
- Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford
- English-language poets from India
- Goan Catholics
- 20th-century Indian poets
- Indian Roman Catholics
- Writers from Mumbai
- Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in English
- 20th-century English poets
- 21st-century Indian poets
- British male poets
- 20th-century male writers
- 21st-century male writers