Adil Jussawalla

"rdauthBio_contentDiv" class="reContentArea" title="Rich text editor with ID rdauthBio" contenteditable="false" style="height: 471px; background-image: none;">Adil Jussawalla was born in 1940 in Bombay. He was educated there and at University College, Oxford. He taught English at the International Language Centre in London, where he met his future wife, Veronik, then returned to Bombay in 1970. Since then, he has been a lecturer at St. Xavier's College, Bombay, and has held editorial positions at The Indian Express, The Times of India, Debonair, Science Age and For You. He was a columnist for Keynote, Gentleman, Sunday Herald and The Sunday Observer, wrote a syndicated fortnightly column for Associated News Features, and edited the influential anthology New Writing in India (Penguin, 1974) which predicted an Indian literary future that largely came true in the decades that followed. He was a founding member of the poets' collective, Clearing House, which published eight seminal books of poems between 1976 and 1984, including his own book-length poem, Missing Person (1976). He has written for the BBC and Channel 4, was an Honorary Fellow at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, and has been translated into various Indian and European languages. Adil Jussawalla is the author of seven previous books of poems, Land's End, Missing Person, Trying to Say Goodbye (which was honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2014), The Right Kind of Dog, Shorelines, The Tattooed Teetotaler and Other Wonders and It Remains to Be Said; two poetry chapbooks, Gulestan and Earth; and four selections of prose, Maps for a Mortal Moon, I Dreamt a Horse Fell from the Sky, The Magic Hand of Chance and Body of Evidence.

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