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Nissim Ezekiel (1924 - 2004) was born in India to an Indian Jewish family. He studied in Bombay and London.

He wrote eight collections of poetry and won the Akademi Award for a volume called 'Latter Day Psalms'. He was also a renowned playwright, art critic, lecturer and editor.

He is credited with beginning the modernistmodernist: Modernism was a movement or style in 20th-century art, architecture and literature characterised by a deliberate departure from tradition and the invention of new forms. movement in India and was one of India's best known poets.