Goan literature is the literature pertaining to the state of Goa in India.
The Navhind Times is an English language newspaper in Goa. Founded in 1963 and based in Panaji, the capital of Goa, it is the largest selling newspaper, amongst the three locally published English newspapers in the state. The other two being O Heraldo and Gomantak Times successively.
Vimala Devi is the pseudonym of Teresa da Piedade de Baptista Almeida, a Goan writer, poet and translator.
The Culture of Goan Catholics is a blend of Portuguese and Konkani cultures, with the former having a more dominant role because the Portuguese ruled Goa directly from 1510 to 1961.
Goan Catholic literature is diverse.
Telo de Mascarenhas was a writer, a poet, a journalist and freedom-fighter from Goa.
José da Silva Coelho was a Goan writer who was the author of several dozen pieces of wickedly satirical short fiction in the 1920s and 1930s, published for the most part in the Portuguese-language newspaper O Heraldo. He is 'easily the most prolific Goan fictionist in Portuguese'.
Ananta Rau Sar Dessai (1910-?) was a Goan short-story writer, radio playwright and poet. He was one of a handful of Goan Hindus to have used Portuguese as his literary language, though he wrote also in Marathi. He was perhaps the only dedicated fictionist in Portuguese to have operated in Goa throughout the Estado Novo. 'His idiosyncratic language, raw provocative themes, and the great ambiguity with which he treats his subjects, make Sar Dessai one of the more interesting Goan writers to have worked in Portuguese'.
Luís de Menezes Bragança, alternatively spelled as Luís de Menezes Braganza, was a prominent Goan journalist, writer, politician and anti-colonial activist. He was one of the few Goan aristocrats who actively opposed the Portuguese colonisation of Goa. During his lifetime, Menezes Bragança was widely hailed around the Lusosphere as "O Maior de todos" and in the Indian mainland as "The Tilak of Goa".
Aleixo Clemente Messias Gomes, better known as Prof. Messias Gomes, was a secondary school teacher, writer and Portuguese-Goan journalist, author of several works on historical themes and founder of the daily O Heraldo, the first daily to be published in Portuguese India.
Walfrido Antão was a prolific cronista and short story writer in the Portuguese-language Goan press, becoming particularly active as this tradition breathed its last. The crónica is a journalistic form common in Iberia and Latin America and which was widely cultivated in Portuguese Goa. It can be roughly defined as a literary text combining elements of the short story, the memoir and the opinion editorial. Born in Arossim, Antão contributed several hundred such articles to O Heraldo and Diário da Noite from the late 1950s until the demise or Anglicisation of these papers.
Epitácio Pais (1924–2009) was an Indian short story writer and novelist who wrote in Portuguese.
Augusto do Rosário Rodrigues was a Goan short-story writer and poet.
Luís Manuel Júlio Frederico Gonçalves, who usually wrote simply as J. Gonçalves, was a Goan writer. Referred to by his contemporaries as the Alexandre Herculano of Goa, Gonçalves had a foundational role in developing Portuguese-language writing in the Portuguese colony of Goa.
José Inácio Candido de Loyola, popularly known as Fanchu Loyola, was, in the words of Charles Borges, "Goa’s foremost nationalist". He is noted for his journalism and political activism in support of human rights and democracy, humanism, anti-colonialism, and Goan independence.
Francisco João da Costa, better known by his pen-name GIP (1859-1900), was a major figure in Goan journalism of the nineteenth century.
Paul Melo e Castro is a British scholar and academic, known for his work on editing and translating particularly Indo-Portuguese literature. His area of work is Lusophone literature, film and visual culture.
Floriano Vaz was an Indian writer and activist. He was the first martyr of the scheduled tribe community who fought for the official status of the Konkani language during the Konkani language agitation.
Leopoldo Cipriano da Gama Esq. was a Goan journalist and writer who was active during the era of Portuguese India. He was one of the notable contributors in the Portuguese weekly newspaper called "A Convicção". Through his articles, he skillfully conveyed his humanistic education, ensuring that the Portuguese content he presented to readers was thoughtfully organized and devoid of excessive, unprocessed facts.
