06 June. Varca. TROY GOMES. Most beloved
son of Alberto/Yvette. Affectionate brother of Tricia/Vincy,
Trinette/Lutfi (Canada) Darling uncle of Travis and Ayrah.
Most loving nephew of Gracinda/late Constancio, Teodosio/late
Artimizia, late Antu/Edwardina (Tanzania), late Julieta/late
Damaciano, Estevao (UK), Ida/Merces , late Benicio/Maria,
Martin/Felia. Cousin of Romeo/Judy, Olga/Tony, Violet/Carlos,
Savio/Eufemia, Hagen, Desiree, Bradwyn, Maclon, Valiza and
Jade.
28
May: Witham, Essex, UK: ALBERT D'SOUZA: (ex
East African Railways and Harbours, Nairobi.): Husband of
Louise, Father of Christopher, Diane, David, Father in law
of Amanda, Nick and Emma, Grandfather of Amaia and Tennessee,
Son of the late Valarian and late Joaquina D'Souza. Funeral:
11 June, 12.45 pm at Holy Family and All Saints Church, Guithavon
St, Witham, Essex. Condolences to chrisdsouza@fsmail.net
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Dom
Moraes, one of India's leading literary figures, died
at his home in the western Indian city of Bombay (also
known as Mumbai) on Wednesday night.
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.
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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.
VS
Naipaul, Ted Hughes, Colin Thubron and Timothy Mo are
among the other writers who have been awarded the Hawthornden
Prize, the oldest of British literary prizes.
Renowned
British poet WH Auden was said to have read and appreciated
Moraes' early works.
He also edited magazines in India and abroad and scripted
a number of television documentaries for many outlets,
including the BBC.
Moraes, whose father Frank who also a well-known editor
and writer, travelled extensively all over the world.
He
lived in London for eight years with his father who
had gone there "to die", as he wrote in his
recent book Out of God's Oven.
Moraes
wrote that the skies of London were "unfamiliar
to him", but when he returned home, India also
posed a puzzle.
He
once said he regretted settling in India in the beginning.
"Not
in the end though," he told an interviewer last
year.
Although
he was born in Bombay, he never learned Hindi or any
other Indian language.
"I
don't think I belong anywhere," he told an interviewer
recently.
Some
years ago Moraes was diagnosed with cancer but refused
treatment.
"After
he came to know he had cancer, he was racing against
time. He said he had to complete a number of projects,"
Vinod Mehta, editor of India's Outlook magazine and
a long time friend of Moraes told BBC News Online.
Among
them was a book on Afghanistan and a posthumous biography
of the founder of one of the world's top engineering
and construction firms.
Vinod
Mehta describes Moraes as an "exquisite writer
who had a turn of the phrase which nobody had".
"I
remember he once wrote a piece saying the monsoons had
come to Bombay like Russian diplomats - stealthily and
quietly."
The
Hindu newspaper paid tribute to Moraes as a "poet
who nurtured his gift despite the workaday demands of
prose".
Vinod
Mehta said that the poet-writer never "achieved
his true potential".
"He
was the product of the bohemian 1960s and 1970s. He
styled himself on Dylan Thomas. It was then almost mandatory
for poets to be alcoholic," he told BBC News Online.
"He
drank quite a bit, knew every pub in Soho till he realised
that he had burnt the candle at both ends."
Mr
Moraes published two books last year, including a well-received
travelogue through India with an associate.
"Much
of my prose was written for money. You can't earn money
by writing poetry," Mr Moraes said in an interview
last year.
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