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Nissim Ezekiel passes away


MUMBAI, JAN. 10. The doyen of Indo-Anglian poets Nissim Ezekiel died here yesterday. He was 79. Mr. Ezekiel, a former professor of English, had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Besides being India's foremost poet writing in English, he had encouraged many who later made a name for themselves as leading poets, including Dom Moraes. He was the editor of PEN journal and on the editorial boards of Bombay English Association Magazine, Poetry India and Quest. Mr. Ezekiel's first collection "Time to Change" was published in 1952. Born in a Jewish family, he was educated in Mumbai and had translated works into Marathi. — PTI

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