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'''Aghostinho Fernandes''' (born [[Quepem]], [[Goa]] 2 July 1932, died Portugal 29 June 2015) was the author of one of [[Goa|Goa's]] key post-colonial novels, ''Bodki'', which has attracted significant critical attention.

==Biography==

Fernandes studied at the [[Liceu Nacional Afonso de Albuquerque]] before matriculating at the [[Escola Médica Cirúrgica de Goa]]; he considered working in Goa but won a place at the [[Universidade de Coimbra]] to develop his medical training. His first job (1960–62) was directing the campaign against [[African trypanosomiasis|sleeping sickness]] in [[Angola]]. He returned to Portugal and from 1974 to 1982 was a cardiologist at [[Centro Hospitalar das Caldas da Rainha]], as well as working in other hospitals such as the [[Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon]]. He was a Member of [[Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia]] and the [[European Society of Cardiology]]. He was the brother of [[John Claro Fernandes]], who became a noted [[Tiatr]] writer and director.<ref>Maria de Lourdes Bravo da Costa Rodrigues, 'Agostinho Fernandes: The forgotten man of letters', ''Navhind Times'', 5 July 2015, http://www.navhindtimes.in/agostinho-fernandes-the-forgotten-man-of-letters/.</ref>

==Works==

Fernandes's most famous work is the Portuguese-language novel ''Bodki'' (1962). In the words of Everton V. Machado,

<blockquote>The constant clash between modern convictions of the elite raised in a Christian environment and the popular beliefs among the lower social strata of Goa must be re-emphasized within the set of Indo-Portuguese themes, as is very clearly illustrated in the novel ''Bodki'' ... In it, a young physician from the capital finds himself confronting the superstitions of the people of a village, especially those who marginalize the ''bodki'', a Hindu widow, considered to be responsible for all the bad happenings that took place there.<ref>Everton V. Machado, 'Indo-Portuguese Literature and the Goa of its Writers', in ''The making of the Luso-Asian world: Intricacies of Engagement'', ed. by Laura Jarnagin, Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011, 1 (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011), pp. 229-38.</ref></blockquote>

Fernandes was involved in journalism in Goa, Angola and Portugal;<ref>Maria de Lourdes Bravo da Costa Rodrigues, 'Agostinho Fernandes: The forgotten man of letters', ''Navhind Times'', 5 July 2015, http://www.navhindtimes.in/agostinho-fernandes-the-forgotten-man-of-letters/.</ref> wrote a number of unpublished plays in Konkani; and the poetry collection ''Os Meus proprios pedaços''.<ref>COSTA, Aleixo Manuel da. Dicionário de literatura goesa. Instituto Cultural de Macau, Fundação Oriente, 3 v., 1997.</ref> He also wrote the novel ''Por além do além'', published in 2007.<ref>Agostinho Fernandes, ''Por além do além'' (Goa: Third Millennium; Editora Terceiro Milénio, 2007).</ref>

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