Lino
Leitão |
Lino
Leitão was born in Goa, a former Portuguese
Colony in India. He studied in Portuguese and English
schools and attended the University of Karnataka
in India and Concordia University in Montreal. His
stories have been published by Goa Today, Gulub,
Gomantak Times (Goa); Afro-Asian Quarterly, Journal
of Asian Litearature (Michigan State University),
The Toronto South Asian Review, Massachusetts Review,
Short Story International (New York),The Antigonish
Review and others. His articles on Goan issues have
been published in Herald, Gomantak Times, Navhin
Times (Goa), and in South Asian Studies Papers, no.
9 - Goa: Continuity and Change - University of Toronto,
Centre for South Asian Studies, 1995.
Updates: CACLASLS (The Canadian Association for Commonwealth
Literarure and Language Studies) published a Short story
DIRGES- Chimo No12, Spring 1986.
XEMAI, a short story was in canada ethnic studies, Vol.
XXXlll, No. 2. 2001. CONFLUNCE (UK) has recently published
series of his Xemai stories. Revista De Estudos Orientais-
Universidade de Sao Paulo, published a paper on his novel
The Gift of the Holy Cross by Prof. Cielo Griselda Festino.
Selected Publications:
The Man and His
Writings (Translated from Portugese). Goa, India:
Xavier Centre of Historical Research, 2000.
The Gift of the Holy Cross. Leeds, England: Peepal
Tree Press, 1999.
Six Tales. Cornwall, ON: Vesta Publications, 1980.
Goa Tales. Cornwall, ON: Vesta Publications, 1977.
Collected Short Tales. New York: Carleton Press,
1972.
E-mal: lino.leitao@sympatico.ca
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