Nissim Ezekiel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nissim Ezekiel

Indian poet

Date of Birth: 14-Dec-1924

Place of Birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Date of Death: 09-Jan-2004

Profession: poet

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Nissim Ezekiel (16 December 1924 – 9 January 2004) was an Indian Jewish poet, actor, playwright, editor and art critic.
He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India's literary history, specifically for Indian Poetry in English.He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for his poetry collection, "Latter-Day Psalms", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.
Ezekiel has been applauded for his subtle, restrained and well crafted diction, dealing with common and mundane (simple) themes in a manner that manifests both cognitive profundity, as well as an unsentimental, realistic sensibility, that has been influential on the course of succeeding Indian English poetry. Ezekiel enriched and established Indian English language poetry through his modernist innovations and techniques, which enlarged Indian English literature, moving it beyond purely spiritual and orientalist themes, to include a wider range of concerns and interests, including mundane familial events, individual angst and skeptical societal introspection.