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Poetry related to Goa (specially by those from the region) is known to have been written in Konkani (in the officially-acknowledged Devanagari and the popularly-used Roman scripts, apart from others), in Portuguese, English and Marathi, apart from other regional, national and international languages to a lesser extent.
He was enthralled by nature, especially Goa's natural beauty and it is aptly depicted in his poems and work. When Dr. Rammanohar Lohia went to Goa in 1946 to announce the liberation movement, Bakibaab jumped into the freedom struggle without a moment's notice. His composition Goyan Lohia Aaylore (Lohia has come to Goa) became quite famous ...
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 Konkani, Portuguese ...
In 2015, Borkar replaced Pundalik Narayan Naik as the president of the Goa Konkani Akademi. [2] In March 2018, he completed 50 years in poetry, and has published eight volumes of verse. [3] He is married to Mankarnika and they have two children, daughter Yogini and son Chinmay. [1]
Vaman Balkrishna Naique Prataprao Sardesai (5 May 1923 – 6 May 1994) was an Indian poet, freedom fighter and diplomat from Goa.Along with Libia Lobo Sardesai, whom he later married, he ran an underground radio station, Voice of Freedom, that transmitted across Portuguese Goa from 1955 to 1961, advocating the cause of the Goan independence movement.
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.
Joseph Furtado (Furtadovaddo, 7 April 1872-Bombay 1 January 1947) was an early South Asian poet and novelist who wrote in the English language. He has been praised as 'one of Goa’s best poets', albeit now 'in the shadows, pushed to the margins and somewhat forgotten'.
In a video uploaded in 2010, scholar and writer Dr Nandkumar Kamat says of Veluskar: "Ramesh Bhagwant Veluskar is one of Goa's best known modern Konkani poet[s]. A Sahitya Akademi award winner, he has several Konkani and a Hindi poetry collection to his credit and is known as pioneer to introduce folklorical and mythological elements in Konkani and offer a new ecoerotic and ecoastehtic idiom."