আদিল জুসাওয়াল্লা

Poet and critic Adil Jussawalla was born in Mumbai and educated at Cathedral and John Connon School. He spent the years between 1957 and 1970 in England, where he studied architecture at the Architectural Association School in London, earned a master’s in English at Oxford, and taught at a language school. Thereafter, he returned to Mumbai, becoming a lecturer in English literature at St. Xavier’s College. Later, he served as the book review editor of The Indian Express, literary editor of The Express Magazine and editor of Debonair magazine. He also co-founded Clearing House, a poets’ publishing co-operative. He has written three books of poetry, Land’s End (1962), Missing Person (1972) and Trying to Say Goodbye (2014), for which he received the Sahitya Akademi Award; and edited a landmark anthology, New Writing in India (1974). His other works include The Right Kind of Dog (2013); Maps for a Mortal Moon (2014) and I Dreamt a Horse Fell from the Sky (2015).