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Maria Aurora Couto

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Early Life
Awards
Works
References
External links

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Maria Aurora Couto is an Indian writer, and educationalist from Goa. Her book Goa: A Daughter's Story has received particularly wide attention.

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. She has been involved with the Goa university as member of Executive Council for several terms and founding Director of the unique Visiting Research Professors Scheme of the Government of Goa. She also initiated the D.D Kosambi Festival , a very popular lecture series sponsored by the dept of Culture, Govt of Goa.

Goa in 1961, Alban Couto was specially chosen by the Govt of India to initiate the transition in administration and other important matters.

Early Life

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.

Awards

In 2010, she received the Padma Shri award.^[1]

Works

The works of Couto include:

Graham Greene: On the Frontier, Politics and Religion in the Novels (Macmillan, London 1986)
Goa: A Daughter's Story (Viking/Penguin 2004).
Ethnography of Goa, Daman and Diu (Viking, Penguin, 2008) (a translation of Etnografia da India Portuguesa by A.B. Braganza Pereira from Portuguese)
Filomena's Journeys: Portrait of a marriage, a family and a culture]] (Aleph Book Company 2013)

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |accessdate=21 July 2015 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archivedate=15 November 2014 |df= }}

External links

Maria Aurora Couto links on Google
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060614100850/http://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Couto+Maria+Aurora Maria Aurora Couto on SAWNET]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20061212175343/http://www.colaco.net/1/GilbertLawrenceGoaAurora.htm Gilbert Lawrence's review of A Daughter's Story]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070203134254/http://www.colaco.net/1/BenGoaAurora.htm Ben Antao's review of A Daughter's Story]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20090701010649/http://www.divshare.com/download/5230607-888 Teotonio R. de Souza's review of A Daughter's Story in EPW]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20050504213636/http://www.womenswriting.com/WriterDetails.asp?Writerid=35 Women'sWriting.com on Couto]
The Hindu on Couto's A Daughter's Story
Review of A Daughter's Story in the Tribune
Review of A Daughter's Story in Seminar

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