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Gieve Patel
Gieve Patel (1940–2023) was a well-known poet, painter and playwright. He published three books of poetry: Poems (Nissim Ezekiel, Bombay, 1966); How Do You Withstand, Body (Clearing House, 1976); Mirrored, Mirroring (Oxford University Press, Madras, 1991). His poems have been included in anthologies in India and in other countries, and his Collected Poems was published in 2018 by Poetrywala.
He wrote three plays which were performed in Mumbai and in other Indian cities: Princes (1970, which won a Sultan Padamsee Playwrighting Award; produced by Theatre Group), Savaksa (1982), and Mister Behram (1988). Mister Behram and Other Plays was published by Seagull Books in 2007.
He conducted an annual poetry workshop for school students at Rishi Valley School (KFI), Andhra Pradesh for more than two decades. Poetry with Young People (Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2007) is an anthology of poems written by his students, in the course of the workshop.
He was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship at the Wilson Center, Washington, DC in 1984. He was also awarded the Rockefeller Fellowship at the University of Chicago, in 1992, and was the C.R. Parekh writer-in-residence at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003.
His paintings are in public and private collections in India and in other countries, including The Kiran Nadar Museum of Modern Art and The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal; The Nicholson Collection at The Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai; The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA.
Gieve also worked as a medical practitioner in rural and urban India.
