Alexandre Moniz Barbosa is an Indian journalist and writer, and winner of the 2013 biennial Goan Short Story competition.[1][2]
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Journalism
editBarbosa 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. He was editor of O Heraldo from 2018 to 2022.
Literary writing
editBarbosa 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]
In 2016 he published the novel Raw Earth, set in contemporary Goa with mining as a backdrop to the plot.[8]
Kaddio Boddio, a collection of short stories, was published in 2022.[9]
He has also written scholarly articles[10] and short stories.[11]
References
edit- ^ "Fundação Oriente: Unifying languages in short stories". oHeraldo. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
- ^ "Goa stories in brief - Times of India". The Times of India. 2 May 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
- ^ "Alexandre Moniz Barbosa: Times of India Reporter". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Stories from Goa". Times of India. 3 May 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- ^ Dale Luis Menezes, 'A Thinker Translated', Gomantak Times, 21 July 2010, http://daleluismenezes.blogspot.in/2011/04/thinker-translated.html.
- ^ "Almost split down the middle, but Goa finally won it. FOR GOA". oHeraldo. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
- ^ "'Raw Earth' release on Feb 7". The Goan EveryDay. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
- ^ Digital, G. T. (7 February 2023). "These 'kaddio boddio' in Goa are a feast for the mind". Gomantak Times. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.