Vijay Nambisan

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.

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. Nambisan was adjudged the first ever All India Poetry Prize winner in 1988 for his poem Madras Central. He was 54 years old when he died.

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

Online references

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