Eunice de Souza

Early life and education

Eunice de Souza was born and grew up in Pune, in a Goan Catholic family. She studied English literature with an MA from the Marquette University in Wisconsin, and a PhD from the University of Mumbai. She taught English at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, and was Head of the Department until her recent retirement. She was involved in the well known literary festival Ithaka organized at the college.

She has also been involved in theater, both as actress and director. She began writing novels with Dangerlok in 2001. She has also written four children's books.

She hints at an ancestral Portuguese conversion in the poem de Souza Prabhu:

No, I'm not going todelve deep down and discoverI'm really de Souza Prabhueven if Prabhu was no fooland got the best of both worlds.(Catholic Brahmin!I can hear his fat chuckle still.)

Aside from poetry and fiction,Eunice de Souza has edited numerous anthologies and collections and wrote a weekly column for the Mumbai Mirror. Her poetry is also included in Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry ( United States ).

She died on July 29, 2017.

Works

Poetry

Fix. (1979)

Women in Dutch Painting. (1988)

Ways of Belonging. (1990)

Selected and New Poems. (1994)

Novels

Dangerlok. (Penguin, 2001) review extract

Dev & Simran: A Novel. (Penguin, 2003) review

Interviews

Conversations with Indian Poets. (OUP, 2001) ISBN 978-0-19-564782-2

Edited

Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology. (OUP, 2001) ISBN 978-0-19-565847-7

101 Folktales From India. (2004)

Purdah: An Anthology. (OUP, 2004) ISBN 0-19-566661-5

Women's Voices: Selections from Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Indian Writing in English. (OUP, 2004) ISBN 978-0-19-566785-1 review

Early Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology 1829-1947. (OUP, 2005) ISBN 978-0-19-567724-9 review

The Satthianadhan Family Album. (Sahitya Akademi, 2005) review