Lucio Rodrigues
Professor Lucio Rodrigues (1916-73) has been recognized as one of the literary geniuses that Goa has produced. Long after he taught at the Dhempe College, his legacy of literature lives on through his writing and his students. An authority on Goan folklore, Prof Rodrigues was visiting professor of folklore at the Indiana University, USA, in 1969; his essays in English, as well as those translated from Konkani, were published as Of Soil and Soul and Konkani Folktales after his death in 1973. A revised edition of this compilation, renamed Abolim, was released on his birth centenary, April 15, 2015, at Porvorim.
Rodrigues had an expansive career as a professor of English Literature at Ramnarain Ruia College, Siddharth College, Sophia College, Elphinstone College in Mumbai and the Karnatak College in Dharwad.
In his later years, he became the head of the Department of English Literature at Dhempe College, Panjim.
A prolific essayist, he contributed to various newspapers and magazines such as The Navhind Times, The Times of India, Goa Today and others.
Edition Notes
First published by Lucio Rodrigues as,
Soil and Soul and Konkani Folk Tales (1974)
This ebook edition published by Goa,1556. in 2020
Ebook Content (c) Estate of Lucio Rodrigues 2020
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