Occupation Writer Role Writer Name Maria Couto | Ethnicity Goan Catholic Nationality Indian | |
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Books Goa, a Daughter's Story, Writers from India, Graham Greene: On the Frontier : Politics and Religion in the Novels Similar M Athar Ali, Jagdish Chandra Jain, Ambika Charan Choudhury | ||
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Maria Aurora Couto is an Indian writer, historian and educationalist from Goa. Her novel Goa: A Daughter's Story has received particularly wide attention.
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- Dr maria aurora couto flags off some issues and comments on the book
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Her family hails from the Goan Catholic community, a Christian community in Goa. She taught English literature in colleges in India (particularly New Delhi) and has contributed to periodicals in India and the United Kingdom.
She lives in the North Goa village of Aldona, from where she has played an important role in the literary and cultural life of Goa. Her late husband Alban Couto was a senior civil servant with the Government of Goa and other governments, and worked in many parts of India. After the end of Portuguese rule in Goa in 1961, Alban Couto was a senior member of the civil service in Goa.
In 2010, she received the Padma Shri award.
Dr maria aurora couto flags off some issues and comments on the book
Works
The works of Couto include: