Laxmanrao Sardessai

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)