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| Born | August 12, 1935 Velim, Goa, Portuguese India, Portuguese Empire (now in India) |
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| Period | 1990–present |
Ben Antao (born 12 August 1935), is a Canadian writer, journalist, teacher, and certified financial planner. He is currently based in Toronto, Canada. [1] [2] [3]
Ben Antao was born in Velim, Goa, Portuguese India during the Portuguese Empire (now in India). He graduated from the University of Bombay (M.A. in English).
Antao first worked as a reporter for The Navhind Times , Panjim, Goa (1963–64) and later joined The Indian Express (1965–66) in Bombay as a reporter. In 1966, he was awarded a journalism fellowship by the World Press Institute based at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, for a year of study and travel in the United States. [4] While in the US, he worked for ten weeks as a writer and editor for The Denver Post , CO. After immigrating to Canada in 1967, he worked for The Catholic Register weekly and The Globe and Mail , both of Toronto.
In 1976, he graduated from the University of Toronto (B.Ed) and switched to a teaching career. He retired from teaching English in high school in 1998. [5]
In 1990, he published Images of Goa, a memoir of his early life and experiences in his native land. In 2004, he published Goa, A Rediscovery, a travelogue of his visit to Goa. He has written five novels, over two dozen short stories, a play and a movie script based on his novel The Tailor's Daughter. [6] His other novels are Blood & Nemesis, Penance, Living on the Market, [7] The Priest and His Karma, and Money and Politics. [8] His non-fiction includes two memoirs: Images of Goa (2011, 2ed) [9] and Images of the USA (2009), and two travelogues: Goa, A Rediscovery (2004) [10] and The Lands of Sicily (2008). [11] [12] [13]
He is a past president of the Canadian Authors Association (Toronto branch). [11]
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