Alexandre Moniz Barbosa

Alexandre Moniz Barbosa is a Goan journalist and writer, and winner of the 2013 biennial Goan Short Story competition.[1][2]

Alexandre Moniz Barbosa
Barbosa in 2010
NationalityIndia
OccupationJournalist, writer

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.

Literary writing

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]

He has also written scholarly articles[8] and short stories.[9]

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References
  1. "Fundação Oriente: Unifying languages in short stories". oHeraldo. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  2. "Goa stories in brief - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  3. "Alexandre Moniz Barbosa: Times of India Reporter". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  4. 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.
  5. "Stories from Goa". Times of India. 3 May 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  6. Dale Luis Menezes, 'A Thinker Translated', Gomantak Times, 21 July 2010, http://daleluismenezes.blogspot.in/2011/04/thinker-translated.html.
  7. "Almost split down the middle, but Goa finally won it. FOR GOA". oHeraldo. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.



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