Maria Aurora Couto
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Ethnicity | Goan Catholic |
Maria Aurora Couto is an Indian writer, historian and educationalist from Goa. Her family hails from the Goan Catholic community, a Christian community in Goa. She taught English literature in colleges in India (particularly New Delhi) and has contributed to periodicals in India and the United Kingdom.
She lives in the North Goa village of Aldona. Her late husband Alban Couto was a senior civil servant in the Government of Goa and worked in many parts of India. In 2010, she received the Padma Shri award. Her grandson is Suhail Couto
Works
The works of Couto include:
- Graham Greene: On the Frontier, Politics and Religion in the Novels (Macmillan, London 1986)
- Goa: A Daughter's Story (Viking/Penguin 2004).
- Ethnography of Goa, Daman and Diu (Viking, Penguin, 2008) (a translation of Etnografia da India Portuguesa by A.B. Braganza Pereira from Portuguese)
4. Filomena's Journeys : Portrait of a marriage, a family and a culture. (Aleph Book Company 2013)
External links
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- Maria Aurora Couto links on Google
- Maria Aurora Couto on SAWNET
- Gilbert Lawrence's review of A Daughter's Story
- Ben Antao's review of A Daughter's Story
- Teotonio R. de Souza's review of A Daughter's Story in EPW
- Women'sWriting.com on Couto
- The Hindu on Couto's A Daughter's Story
- Review of A Daughter's Story in the Tribune
- Review of A Daughter's Story in Seminar