BBC NEWS | South Asia: "The soft-spoken author and poet published nearly 30 books, including a biography of the former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Moraes began writing poems when he was 12 and published his first book of poems, A Beginning, when he was 19. The book won the Hawthornden Prize for the best work of imaginative literature in 1958. He was the first non-English writer to win this prize and also the youngest. "
Friday, June 04, 2004
Indian poet Dom Moraes dies
BBC NEWS | South Asia: "The soft-spoken author and poet published nearly 30 books, including a biography of the former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Moraes began writing poems when he was 12 and published his first book of poems, A Beginning, when he was 19. The book won the Hawthornden Prize for the best work of imaginative literature in 1958. He was the first non-English writer to win this prize and also the youngest. "
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