Olivinho Gomes

Olivinho Gomes
Born 1943
St Estevam, Goa, Estado da India
Died 30 July 2009 (aged 66)
Goa, India
Occupation Scholar, polyglot writer, poet, translator, broadcaster and telecaster. Former Head of the Konkani Department, Goa University. Former Acting Vice Chancellor, Goa University.
Language Konkani
Nationality Indian
Citizenship Indian
Education Ph.D. in Sociology.
Notable works Village Goa
Notable awards National Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation in 1993.

Olivinho Gomes (b.St Estevam, Goa, 1943—July 30, 2009) was an eminent Konkani scholar and former acting vice chancellor of the Goa University.

Scholar, and more

A noted scholar, polyglot writer, poet, translator, broadcaster and telecaster, Dr Gomes had over 40 published books to his credit. He initially started off as a government official with the Central Government of India, in the Indian Revenue Service,[1] but later on shifted to academia and moved on to joining the Goa University's Konkani department.

Gomes has presented papers and lectures at seminars and conferences in Goa, the rest of India and overseas. His field of specialisation was language, literature, translation studies, history, sociology and culture.[2] His Konkani writings resulted in him being included in the executive board of the Indian institution of letters the Sahitya Akademi as a representative for the Konkani language, a member of the experts panel of the University Grants Commission, the National Council of Educational Research and Training, the Union Public Service Commission, the K K Birla Foundation, and the Indian Languages Promotion Council, among others.[2]

Camoes into Konkani

Professor Gomes had a fascination from his student days with the verse of the Portuguese national poet Luís de Camões. He spent five years of his spare time to translate the epic poet's work into one of India's smallest national languages, but his mother-tongue, Konkani. On the lines of the classical Sanskrit epic of India, the Ramayana, Gomes has called his 747-page translation work Luzitayonn.[3] Gomes has argued that there is a "preponderance of probability" that Camoes wrote the epic or a substantial part of it in Goa, "where he wrote most of his poetry".

From bureaucracy to academia

Gomes, who was born in Portuguese-ruled Goa, did his PhD in Sociology, got into the Indian Customs and Central Excise higher echelons through the Indian Revenue Service, and then gave up that all to shift back to Goa in 1987 for a life as a scholar.

List of books

These are some books[4] authored by Dr. Gomes:

Other work

References


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