Wonder if anyone could put together a collection of Goan short stories in Portuguese. Preferably, in translation. I'm sure it would be easy to publish, and my alternative venture Goa,1556 [http://goa1556.goa-india.org] would surely be interested. Thanks for linking us up with another era and another language which we know so little about, Dr Pereira! ---Frederick Noronha. PS: Most people in Goa aren't part of mailing-lists. Would be pleasantly surprised if Epitácio Pais is.
2009/4/20 Jose Pereira <eximi...@hotmail.com>: > Epitácio Pais was born in 1926, and is now 83 years old. He started writing > in the > late 40s, published his short stories in the O Heraldo in the 50s, and, in > the 60s, > transmitted them over the All India Radio. The high point of his career came > in the > early 70s, when 13 of his short stories were compiled in a book and published > under > the title Os Javalis de Codval (Lisbon: Editorial Futura 1973). Goan short > story > writing in Portuguese, never prolific, was initiated by Júlio Gonçalves > (1846-1896) > in the late 19th century. Inspired by the matchless style of the great > Portuguese > novelist Eça de Queirós (1846-1900), it attained maturity in the satirical > short > stories of José da Silva Coelho (1889-1944) in the early 20th century. > Finally, it > can be said to have climaxed in the late 20th century in the work of Epitácio > Pais. > Manuel de Seabra, the acute historian of Goan writing in Portuguese, compares > Epitácio to the great 19th century Russians like Turgenev (1818-1883) and > even to > Dostoievski (1821-1881) himself! > But Epitácio lives, and knows about his own life better than any one else. > Break > your silence and speak Epitácio, we are all ears! -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://fredericknoronha.multiply.com/ http://goa1556.goa-india.org Sent from Pune, MH, India "In 5 years, OS/2 will be the answer to a trivia question." - Marty Taucher