Alexandre Moniz Barbosa | |
|---|---|
 Barbosa in 2010 | |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, 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. He was Editor of Herald from 2018 to 2022.
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]
In 2016 he published the novel Raw Earth, set in contemporary Goa with mining as a backdrop to the plot. [8]
His latest book is Kaddio Boddio, a collection of short stories that was published in 2022. [9]
He has also written scholarly articles [10] and short stories. [11]
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