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Adil Jussawalla

Adil Jussawalla (b. 1940) was born in Mumbai.Photograph of Adil Jussawalla

He spent most of the years between 1957 and 1970 in England where he studied to be an architect, wrote plays, read English at Oxford and taught English at a language school. Returning to Mumbai, he taught English at St Xavier’s College between 1972 and 1975.

Poet and critic Adil Jussawalla is an influential presence in Indian poetry in English. He has written two books of poetry, edited a seminal anthology of new writing from India, and co-edited an anthology of Indian prose in English. He writes a complex poetry—ironic, fragmented, non-linear, and formally strenuous.

Works

  • Land’s End {1962}
  • Missing Person {1976}