Alexandre Moniz Barbosa

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Alexandre Moniz Barbosa
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Barbosa in 2010
NationalityIndian
OccupationJournalist, writer

Alexandre Moniz Barbosa is a Goan journalist and writer, and winner of the 2013 biennial Goan Short Story competition.[1][2]

Barbosa has written, inter alia, for the Times of India.[3] After a spell as Assistant Editor at Goa Today, he became Assistant Resident Editor for the Times of India, Goa Edition.

Literary writing[]

Barbosa wrote the novel Touched By The Toe (2004), set in sixteenth-century Goa, and taking its name an incident in which a Portuguese noblewoman bit off a toe from the relics of St Francis Xavier.[4][5]

He translated from Portuguese to English essays by José Inácio Candido de Loyola, as Passionate and Unrestrained (2008).[6]

In 2011 he published the book Goa Rewound, a socio-political commentary on Goa.[7]

He has also written scholarly articles[8] and short stories.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ "Fundação Oriente: Unifying languages in short stories". oHeraldo. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Goa stories in brief - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Alexandre Moniz Barbosa: Times of India Reporter". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  4. ^ Frederick Noronha and Pamela D'Mello, 'Goa in Creative Writing', in Mirror to Goa: Identity and the Written Word in a Small Society (Goa: Broadway/Goa,1556, 2010), accessed from https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/goa-book-club/yXbbkTI9tOI.
  5. ^ "Stories from Goa". Times of India. 3 May 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  6. ^ Dale Luis Menezes, 'A Thinker Translated', Gomantak Times, 21 July 2010, http://daleluismenezes.blogspot.in/2011/04/thinker-translated.html.
  7. ^ "Almost split down the middle, but Goa finally won it. FOR GOA". oHeraldo. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  8. ^ E.g. 'St Francis Xavier: An Everlasting Icon', in Jesuits in India History and Culture, ed. by Delio de Mendonca (Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, 2008); 'Álvaro da Costa: Journalism, Family Involvement', in Episodio oriental: readings in Indo-Portuguese literature, ed. by Maria Inês Figueira, Oscar de Noronha (Fundação Oriente, 2007), pp. 58ff.
  9. ^ E.g. ‘Mangoes for Gabru’, Muse India, 64 (November–December 2015), http://museindia.com/focuscontent.asp?issid=50&id=4293 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine.


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