Laxmanrao Sardessai was a Goan poet and short-story writer. Considered one of the territory's finest writers in the Marathi language, he also wrote prose and verse in Konkani and Portuguese.
Sardessai was born in 1904, in Savoi-Verem, and died in 1986. He lived, therefore, through the times of the Portuguese First Republic, the Estado Novo dictatorship and, after 1961, the post-Liberation Indian government. His writings, which include over 700 stories in Marathi, provide a spectrum of Goa over the twentieth century.
Bibliography
- Thali, Prakash. Laxmanrao Sardessai. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2008.
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Examples of his poetry in Portuguese may be found here:
- Sou Querido de Todos (1966)
- Ouço os Teus Passos, Senhor (1966)
- O Poeta (1966)
- Não Estou Só, Não! (1966)
- A Causa que Eu Professo (1966)
- Paredes (1966)
- Eu Canto a Sua Glória (1966)
- A Ave de Rapina (1966)
- O Inferno (1966)
- Delhi (1966)
- Nas Mãos de Deus (1966)
- Conflagração (1966)
- Sou Quem Sou (1966)
- Estou em Tudo (1966)
- Delícias do Paraíso (1965)
- Sempre Alegres (1965)
- Momentos (1965)
- A Vida (1965)
- Ideias e Rupias (1965)
- Dia de Independência
- Bonança (1965)
- Um conflito (1965)
- Alforreca (1965)
- O Teu Maior Inimigo (1965)
- O Nosso Crime (1965)
- Eu Quero (1965)
- Eu Idealizo (1965)
- Os Meus Sonhos (1965)
- Esperança (1965)
- Nossos Heróis (1964)