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Alberto de Noronha (3 October 1920 – 19 October 2006)[1] was a Goan writer and translator.

Noronha's career was as a school teacher, then as a government official; he retired as a Deputy Director of the Department of Statistics in Goa.[2]

He translated a collection of short stories written in Marathi, Konkani and English under the title Onde o Moruoni Canta: Contos Goeses (Panjim, Goa: Third Millennium, 2003). It includes stories by Damodar Mauzo, Olivinho Gomes, Uday Bhembré, Laxmanrao Sardessai, Armando Menezes and Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, amongst others.

He wrote The Third Culture: Some Aspects of the Indo-Portuguese Cultural Encounter (Panjim: Third Millennium, 2006).[3]

References

  1. ↑ The Navhind Times, http://www.navhindtimes.in/, accessed from [1].
  2. ↑ Isabel de Santa Rita Vas, 'Obituary for Alberto de Noronha', The Goan Forum, http://www.colaco.net/, accessed from http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/[email protected]/5212105.html Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Alberto de Noronha, The Third Culture: Some Aspects of the Indo-Portuguese Cultural Encounter (Panjim: Third Millennium, 2006), accessed from http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b3045165.