Dear Dan, Thanks indeed for your kind feed back. I noticed your presence at the Jan 30 function, and, being caught up with a dozen tiny things (including scouting around for spare chairs!) I must apologise for not saying a hello!
We really appreciate all you do for the field of writing (including Goan writing) and literature here. I once did a paper degree in Literature, but my interests (then too) lay elsewhere (journalism, feature-writing, interviewing, photography and now alternative publishing), and don't consider as having any special qualifications in the field! Of course, I do recognise that there is a lot of untapped talent, just waiting to be acknowledged in Goa and the diaspora. Violet Lannoy-Dias is obviously one of the big, under-recognised names here. I'm grateful to people like Dr Peter Nazareth (Univ of Iowa) for keeping on reminding us about her work. Journalist-dramatist Hartman de Souza too knows Violet's work. It would be really nice if we could do anything here to celebrate her work. Her sister Bemvinda doesn't move out much, I was told, though I did try to draw her brother-in-law Bomfil Da Cruz to the launch. Best wishes, FN On 4 February 2010 10:36, DAN DRISCOLL <driscoll....@gmail.com> wrote: > Â Trying to get you on your gmail address, but not working. Hope you might > rc'v this: > That was a fine Book Launch Event at Clube V de G last week. I went > especially on lookout for Peter Nazareth's book, and found it. > In it there is the Violet Dias Lannoy *Story Roses on the Grass*, which I am > now reading out to wife Germana. Violet was first Cousin to Germana, and to > Bemvinda (Dias) Da Cruz. We are stunned by the brilliance of the African > story---how she could so subtly portray that African scenario. > I think I have you to thank for the fact that I was able to click up > biographical pieces about Violet (by Bemvinda; Lannoy, and Peter Nazareth). > As you may recall, I did a couple of public readings over past months---from > Lambert's book, and Margaret Atwoods 'Scrooge' at XCHR. I have no talent for > writing, but read rather well having taught Eng. Lit. in Canada for a decade > or so. I'm thinking of doing this Violet story at Black Box, sometime within > the next couple of months. If you have any suggestons about it, let me know. > I'd get Bomfilio Da Cruz to say a few words, but if you could be around I'd > have you say something about your own work. My only small anxiety about you > these days is that you could be working too hard. Take care of yourself. -- Frederick Noronha Columnist :: journalism :: editing :: alt.publishing :: photography :: blogging