Enterprise written by nissim ezekiel biography
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About the poet:
Nissim Ezekiel is known as the father of post-independence Indian-English verse. He is the one who started modernity in Indian-English poetry.
Enterprise written by nissim ezekiel biography
His simple, conversational style has influenced many later Indian English poets.
Poet, dramatist, editor, as well as art-critic, Nissim Ezekiel was born on 14th December 1924 in Mumbai. The Ezekiels belonged to Mumbai’s Jewish community, commonly known as the ‘Bene Israel.’ In 1947, Ezekiel took his MA in English Literature from Mumbai University.
Thereafter he studied philosophy at Birbeck College, London. He married Daisy Jacob in 1952 and the same year his first collection of poems entitled A Time to Change was published by Fortune Press (London). Returning home the next year, Ezekiel joined The Illustrated Weekly of India as an assistant editor and stayed there for two years.
Ezekiel’s other poetry collections are The Third (1959), Th