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writer (born 1944)

Damodar Mauzo

b. 1944, writes in Konkani, writer, children's writer

Damodar Mauzo is an Indian short story writer, novelist, critic, and screenwriter in Konkani. He was awarded the 57th Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary honour, in 2022, Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for his novel Karmelin and the Vimala V. Pai Vishwa Konkani Sahitya Puraskar award for his novel Tsunami Simon in 2011. His collection of short stories Teresa’s Man and Other Stories from Goa was nominated for the Frank O’Connor International award in 2015. He has served as a member of the executive board, general council, as well as the finance committee of the Sahitya Akademi.

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Books on record

On Open Library

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Awards

1983Sahitya Akademi Award for Carmelin

Elsewhere

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Also writing in Konkani

Bakibab Borkar

1910–1984Marathi and Konkani poet, writer and freedom fighter (1910–1984)