PANJIM: Toronto based author and publisher Ben Antao will be a special guest at the Goa Book Club's meeting on January 20, 2011 (Thursday) at 5 pm at the Broadway Book Centre. Antao.
Antao, a journalist in Goa in the 1960s, has authored novels and other texts related to Goa, and recently edited the anthology 'Goa Masala'. His other works include The Tailor's Daughter, The Priest and His Karma: A Novel, Living on the Market, apart from travelogues to Goa and Italy. The Goa Book Club is a joint endeavour of local alternative publishers Goa,1556 and Broadway Book Centre. It meets on the third Thursday of each month at Goa's largest bookshop (Broadway) on 18th June Road and is open to all. Each member present is however required to make a five-minute presentation on any book, new or old, related to Goa, read by them. This month's meeting is also to have a presentation on the work of Angola-born journalist and writer José Eduardo Agualusa (Alves da Cunha, b. 1960) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Eduardo_Agualusa]. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He writes monthly for the Portuguese magazine LER and weekly for the Angolan newspaper A Capital. He hosts the radio program A Hora das Cigarras, about African music and poetry, on the channel RDP África. Agualusa also launched the Brazilian publisher Língua Geral, dedicated exclusively to Portuguese-language authors. The Goa Book Club is open to discussions on all books related to Goa, in any language. More details at http://ttt-goa.notlong.com