Mumbai, June 2
Poet extraordinaire and literary giant Dom Moraes died here today following cardiac arrest. He was 66.
Family sources said Moraes died in his sleep at his Bandra residence at about 3.30 p.m.
Born in Mumbai in 1938, he published his first book of poems, “A Beginning”, when he was just 19. The book later won the Hawthornden Prize.
Apart from these, he published nine other collections of poems, and 23 prose books, including a biography of Indira Gandhi and memoirs “Never At Home”, “Gone Away” and “My Son’s Father.”
Son of the illustrious journalist Frank Moraes, Dom covered wars in Algeria, Israel and Vietnam for some
time. In 1971, he was Editor of The Asia Magazine, and in 1976 he joined the UN. He returned to India in 1979 and had lived here since. —
UNI
