Alexandre Moniz Barbosa is a

Goa Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the ...

n journalist and writer, and winner of the 2013 biennial Goan Short Story competition. Barbosa has written, ''inter alia'', for the ''

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''. After a spell as Assistant Editor at ''Goa Today'', he became Assistant Resident Editor for the ''Times of India'', Goa Edition.

Literary writing

Barbosa wrote the novel ''Touched By The Toe'' (2004), set in sixteenth-century Goa, and taking its name an incident in which a Portuguese noblewoman bit off a toe from the relics of

St Francis Xavier Francis Xavier (born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta; Latin: ''Franciscus Xaverius''; Basque: ''Frantzisko Xabierkoa''; French: ''François Xavier''; Spanish: ''Francisco Javier''; Portuguese: ''Francisco Xavier''; 7 April 15063 December ...

. He translated from Portuguese to English essays by José Inácio Candido de Loyola, as ''Passionate and Unrestrained'' (2008). In 2011 he published the book ''Goa Rewound'', a socio-political commentary on Goa. He has also written scholarly articles and short stories.E.g. ‘Mangoes for Gabru’, ''Muse India'', 64 (November–December 2015), http://museindia.com/focuscontent.asp?issid=50&id=4293 .

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