Dom Moraes (1938-2004) was born in Bombay, of Indian Roman Catholic and Goan extraction. He travelled
the world with his father, a celebrated writer, after his mother was institutionalised when he
was seven. He studied at Oxford, and his first collection of poetry, A Beginning (1957) received
the Hawthornden Prize. He continued to write while living in London and then India, as a poet
and freelance. He was the author of a memorable autobiography, My Father's Son.