Dominic Francis "Dom" Moraes (19 July 1938 – 2 June 2004)[2] was a British[3] writer and poet who published nearly 30 books in English.

[8] He attended the city's St. Mary's School, and then left for England to enroll at Jesus College, Oxford.

[9] Moraes spent eight years in Britain (in London and Oxford), New York City, Hong Kong, Delhi and Bombay.

When he was 19, still an undergraduate, he became the first Indian to win the Hawthornden Prize and was presented with £100 and a silver medal by Lord David Cecil at the Arts Council of Britain on 10 July 1958.

[12] Moraes conducted one of the first interviews of the Dalai Lama after the Tibetan spiritual leader fled to India in 1959.

Moraes suffered from cancer, but refused treatment and died from a heart attack in Bandra, Mumbai.

[citation needed] He had a son, Francis Moraes, with his second wife Judith, whom he divorced, and returned to India in 1968.