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Dom Moraes (Dominic Francis Moraes) was born on 19 July, 1938 in Bombay, Bombay Province, British India, is an Indian English-language writer and poet (1938–2004). Discover Dom Moraes's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

Popular As Dominic Francis Moraes
Occupation Poet, novelist, columnist, director
Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 19 July 1938
Birthday 19 July
Birthplace Bombay, Bombay Province, British India
Date of death 2 June, 2004
Died Place Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nationality India

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His wife is Henrietta Moraes (m. 1961) Judith Moraes Leela Naidu (1969–1992; separated)

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Wife Henrietta Moraes (m. 1961) Judith Moraes Leela Naidu (1969–1992; separated)
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1938

Dominic Francis Moraes (19 July 1938 – 2 June 2004) was an Indian writer and poet who published nearly 30 books in English.

He is widely seen as a foundational figure in Indian English literature.

His poems are a meaningful and substantial contribution to Indian and World literature.

Dom Moraes was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) to Beryl and Frank Moraes, former editor of The Times of India and later The Indian Express.

He had a tormented relationship with his mother Beryl, who had been confined to a mental asylum since his childhood.

His aunt was the historian Teresa Albuquerque.

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).

1956

In 1956, aged 18, he was courted by Audrey Wendy Abbott who later changed her name to Henrietta.

1957

David Archer published Moraes' first collection of poems, A Beginning, in 1957.

1958

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 10 July 1958.

He edited magazines in London, Hong Kong and New York.

1959

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.

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.

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.

1961

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.

He was later allowed back in the country.

They married in 1961.

He left her, according to his close friends in London, but did not divorce her.

1968

He had a son, Francis Moraes, with his second wife Judith, whom he divorced, and returned to India in 1968.

1969

In 1969, he married the Indian actress Leela Naidu.

They were treated as a star couple, and known across the world for over two decades.

Their marriage ended in a separation.

For the last 13 years of his life he lived with Sarayu Srivatsa, with whom he co-authored two books.

1971

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.

1976

In 1976 he joined the United Nations.

2002

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.

Moraes ended his writing career, writing books in collaboration with Sarayu Srivatsa.