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Walfrido Antão
Walfrido Antão was an Indian prolific '' cronista'' and short story writer in the Portuguese-language Goan press, becoming particularly active as this tradition breathed its last. The crónica is a journalistic form common in Iberia and Latin America and which was widely cultivated in Portuguese Goa. It can be roughly defined as a literary text combining elements of the short story, the memoir and the opinion editorial. Born in Arossim, Antão contributed several hundred such articles to ''O Heraldo'' and ''Diário da Noite'' from the late 1950s until the demise or Anglicisation of these papers. ''Crónicas'' Antão's ''crónicas'' reflect his preoccupations with environmental concerns, Goan culture, the future of the Portuguese language in the territory, and issues related to Alcoholics Anonymous, of which he was one of the first promoters in Goa Short stories Antão's stories, like the rest of his journalistic output, seem influenced by what we could loosely term existentialis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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