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Father Thomas Stephens, an English Jesuit living in Goa, "wrote the first Konkani grammar book and an epic 11,000-line Marathi poem, now regarded as a classic." [1]Eunice de Souza, herself a prominent poet in English, writes: [2] "Joseph Furtado, who wrote in English and in Portuguese was one of the first poets to use what we now call “Indian English.” “Fortune teller, memsahib!/Tell ...
prose fiction and poetry New York-based writer of poetry: Visions from Grymes Hill and a much acclaimed novel, The Sting of Peppercorns, published by Goa 1556, Mirrored Reflection (a collection of poems) published by Goa 1556 & Fundacao Oriente, 2013. Francisco Luis Gomes: 1829–1869 Portuguese The first Goan novelist. Olivinho Gomes: 1943–2009
Raghunath Vishnu Pandit (1916 or 1917-1990) [1] was an Indian poet. He is best known and most celebrated for his vast poetic production in Konkani.Pandit also produced a significant body of work in Portuguese after the Liberation of Goa in 1961, and also wrote in Marathi.
A noted scholar, polyglot writer, poet, translator, broadcaster and telecaster, Dr Gomes had over 40 published books to his credit. He initially started off as a government official with the Central Government of India, in the Indian Revenue Service, [1] but later on shifted to academia and moved on to joining the Goa University's Konkani department.
Manohar Shetty (born 1953) [1] is a Goa-based poet considered one of the prominent Indian poets writing in the English language. [2]He has been a Senior Fellow with the Sahitya Akademi, the Indian academy of arts and letters, and his work is found in several anthologies, including The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets [3] edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and anthologies ...
2.1 Poetry in Portuguese. ... Goa 1899, died 1979) was an Indian writer, a poet, a journalist and freedom ... graduating in law from the University of Coimbra in 1930 ...
Bakibaab's statue in Goa. Balkrishna Bhagwant Borkar was born on 30 November 1910 in the village of Borim, Goa situated on the banks of the Zuari river. The atmosphere in his house was very pious and there used to be recitals of bhajans, kirtans, holy scripts and songs of saints of Maharashtra.
Teresa da Piedade de Baptista Almeida (born c. 1932), known by her pen name Vimala Devi, is a Portuguese writer, poet, and translator. [1] [2] [3] Born into an elite Goan caste of Roman Catholic Brahmins in Portuguese Goa, she settled in Lisbon, Portugal in 1957, later working as a translator, during which she adopted her pen name.