Paul Melo e Castro
Paul Melo e Castro is a British scholar and academic, known for his work on editing and translating particularly Indo-Portuguese literature. His area of work is Lusophone literature, film and visual culture. Books. Dr. Castro has translated and edited two book-length works, "Lengthening Shadows: An Anthology of Goan Short Stories translated from the Portuguese" (Volume I and II). He is also the author of "Shades of Grey: 1960s Lisbon in Novel, Film and Photography." (London: MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 2011.) In 2016, he and Prof Helder Garmes of the University of São Paulo in  Brazil collaborated to edit an undiscovered novel by the late Epitacio Pais, of Batim (Goa), called "Preia Mar" (High Tide). Other writing. He has also contributed many book chapters and journal articles. His work has gained noticed due to his translations of often-forgotten Goan short stories written decades ago in the Portuguese language, which is not much used in Goa, the former capital of the Portuguese Empire in the East today. He is known to maintain the Archive of Goan Writing in Portuguese blog. Background. A profile of the academic-author says Castro was born in west London, but  his father was a "descendente" (Goan-born of ethnic Portuguese extraction) who left Goa as a "young boy" in 1961, when Portuguese rule ended. Castro heard stories of Goa recounted by family members. Professionally, he is a lecturer in the Portuguese language at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies of the University of Leeds.