Vijay Nambisan was a poet, writer, critic and journalist from India writing in English. He won First Prize in the first All India Poetry Competition in 1990 organized by The Poetry Society (India) in collaboration with the British Council. He died in 10th August 2017.[1]

Biography

Vijay Nambisan was co-author of the book Gemini with Jeet Thayil and Dom Moraes. Gemini was Thayil's debut book of poetry. Nambisan’s own independent first book was Language as an Ethic.[2] Nambisan was adjudged the first ever All India Poetry Prize winner in 1988 for his poem Madras Central. [3] He was 54 years old when he died.[4]

Personal life

Vijay Nambisan graduated from IIT Madras, Chennai. He married the novelist and doctor Kavery Nambisan.

Bibliography

Books

• Language as an Ethic (Essays) New Delhi: Penguin Books, India 2003. ISBN 978-0143030218
• Bihar is in the Eyes of the Beholder (Reflection) (Poetry in English). New Delhi: Viking, India 2000. ISBN 978-0670892402
• Gemini (Poems). New Delhi: Viking Books, India 1992.
• '’Puntanam and Melpattur : Two Measures of Bhakti'’ (Religion), Penguin Books, India New Delhi (2009). ISBN 978-0143064480

Online references

• Book Reviews in DNA by Vijay Nambisan
• ‘’Reasons of Belonging’’ -“Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets” by Ranjit Hoskote

See also

• Kaveri Nambisan – A Biography
• Indian Poets Writing in English
• The Poetry Society (India)

Notes