page_title: Goan literature
section_title: Resources for and about Goan writers
hierarchical_section_title: Goan literature / Resources for and about Goan writers
caption_attribution_description: English: Central Library, Panjim (Panaji), Goa, India
context_page_description: Goan literature is the literature pertaining to the state of Goa in India.
  Goa has a population of around 1.4 million and an area of 3,700 sq. kilometres. For a small region, it has a significant amount of publication activity, possibly in part because its people write in a number of languages—perhaps as many as 13—and also because of the large expatriate and diaspora population of Goans settled across the globe.
  Among its most noted writers are Laxmanrao Sardessai and R. V. Pandit, both of whom wrote poetry and prose in Marathi, Konkani, and Portuguese; Shenoi Goembab, whose Konkani writing helped to establish Konkani as a modern literary language; Ravindra Kelekar, who wrote some of the twentieth century's foremost Konkani literature; and Pundalik Naik, whose 1977 novel Acchev was the first Konkani novel to be translated into English.
context_section_description: Goa University institutional repository, languages and literature section
  The Goa Archives
  Fundação Oriente, Panjim-based Portuguese cultural body, which has helped some writers with small grants of a few thousand rupees.
  Goa University Library: It has a large collections in the languages of Konkani, Marathi, English, Portuguese, French. It has old manuscripts, microfilms and prints of the 17th century in Goa.
  Goa State Central Library, which is run by the Government of Goa, is the oldest library in South Asia. It has been one of the largest depositories of printed volumes pertaining to Goan languages and literature since the seventeenth century.
caption: Central Library, Panjim (Panaji), Goa, India
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