Orlando da Costa
{{Short description|Portuguese writer (1929–2006)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}
{{for|the footballer|Orlando da Costa (footballer)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Orlando da Costa
| image =
| caption =
| birth_name = Orlando António Fernandes da Costa
| birth_place = Maputo, Portuguese Mozambique
| birth_date = July 1929
| death_date = {{dda|2006|1|27|1929|df=y}}
| occupation = Writer
| children = Antonio Costa (son)
| spouse = Maria Antónia Palla (divorced)
| relatives = Sérgio Vieira (cousin)
| nationality = Portuguese
}}
Orlando António Fernandes da Costa (July 1929 − 27 January 2006) was a Portuguese writer of Goan paternal and Portuguese-French{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Portugal PM likely to release a book in Goa: Written by born in Mozambique father, Orlando Costa |url=https://clubofmozambique.com/news/portugal-pm-likely-release-book-goa-written-born-mozambique-father-orlando-costa/ |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=Mozambique |language=en-US}} maternal descent whose writings express his experiences of life in Goa.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-kloBwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Orlando+da+Costa%22+goa&pg=PA229|title=Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011: The making of the Luso-Asian world, intricacies of engagement|last=Jarnagin|first=Laura|date=2011|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=9789814345255|pages=229–237|language=en}} According to Everton Machado, his book O Último Olhar de Manú Miranda is a good introduction to know Indo-Portuguese literature.{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rhxqDwAAQBAJ&dq=O+%C3%9Altimo+Olhar+de+Man%C3%BA+Miranda&pg=PT173|title=Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011|last=Jarnagin|first=Laura|date=2003-08-01|publisher=Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.|isbn=9789814517652|language=en|chapter=Indo-Portuguese Literature and the Goa of Its Writers}} He was the father of the current President of the European Council and the former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa, by his first wife Maria Antónia Palla.[http://www.outlookindia.com/article/Then-Came-A-Gandhi/289192 Then Came A Gandhi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112232922/http://www.outlookindia.com/article/Then-Came-A-Gandhi/289192# |date=2014-11-12 }}, outlookindia.com, retrieved 10 September 2015
Costa was maternal cousin to Sérgio Vieira, a politician in Mozambique.{{cite web | last=Group | first=Global Media | title=Das castas altas da Índia | website=DN | date=May 25, 2007 | url=https://www.dn.pt/arquivo/2007/das-castas-altas-da-india-658273.html | language=pt | access-date=Jan 31, 2022}}
Biography
After being raised in Margão, Portuguese Goa, Costa spent in the 1950s, most of his time in Casa dos Estudantes do Império, an institution mainly built to house students from the Portuguese colonies that were studying in the metropole. There, he came in contact with many of the future leaders of the nationalist movements of the colonies, such as the MPLA, the FRELIMO and the PAIGC. Between 1950 and 1953, he was arrested three times by the Salazar government.Ben Antao, 'Goan Literature in English', Muse India, 64 (November–December 2015), {{cite web |url=http://www.museindia.com/focuscontent.asp?issid=50&id=4273 |title=Welcome to Muse India |access-date=2015-12-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010241/http://www.museindia.com/focuscontent.asp?issid=50&id=4273 |archive-date=2016-03-05 }}.{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fWlMV5lVSpYC&dq=%22Orlando+da+Costa%22+goa&pg=PA5|title=Goa and Portugal: Their Cultural Links|last1=Borges|first1=Charles J.|last2=Feldmann|first2=Helmut|date=1997|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=9788170226598|language=en|chapter=Goa in the novel o signo da era by Orlando da Costa}} A few days before he died, on January 5, 2006, he received from Jorge Sampaio's hands the degree of Commander of the Order of Liberty.{{Cite web |title=ENTIDADES NACIONAIS AGRACIADAS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS - Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas |url=https://www.ordens.presidencia.pt/?idc=153 |access-date=2023-06-12 |website=www.ordens.presidencia.pt}}
Bibliography
- 1951 − A Estrada e a Voz{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-n0VAQAAMAAJ&q=A+Estrada+e+a+Voz|title=A estrada e a voz: poemas|last=Costa|first=Orlando da|date=1951|publisher=Centro bibliográfico|language=pt}}
- 1953 − Os Olhos sem Fronteira{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kLYlnQAACAAJ|title=Os olhos sem fronteiras, poemas|last=Costa|first=Orlando da|date=1953|publisher=Centro Bibliográfico|language=en}}
- 1955 − Sete Odes do Canto Comum
- 1961 − O Signo da Ira
- 1964 − Podem Chamar-me Eurídice
- 1971 − Sem Flores nem Coroas
- 1979 − Canto Civil
- 1984 − A Como Estão os Cravos Hoje?
- 1994 − Os Netos de Norton
- 2000 − O Último Olhar de Manú Miranda{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oMEfAQAAIAAJ&q=O+%C3%9Altimo+Olhar+de+Man%C3%BA+Miranda|title=O último olhar de Manú Miranda|last=Costa|first=Orlando da|date=2000|publisher=Ancora Editora|isbn=9789727800520|language=pt}}
References
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External links
- [http://archiveofgoanwritinginportuguese.blogspot.com/2012/02/leopoldo-da-rocha-o-signo-da-ira-de.html Review of "O Signo da Ira" by Leopoldo da Rocha] {{in lang|pt}}
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