Cha. Fra. D'Costa
Indian writer
Intro | Indian writer | ||
Places | India | ||
was | Author Poet Writer | ||
Work field | Literature | ||
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Birth | 10 October 1931, Mangalore, India | ||
Death | 1992 (aged 60 years) | ||
Star sign | Libra | ||
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Cha. Fra. D'Costa was a Konkani poet, dramatist and journalist.
Cha. Fra. was born in Mangalore on 10 October 1931 near Marnamikatta as the eldest of four children of Madthabai and Marcel D’Costa. He did his primary education in Cascia School and High School in Milagres School where the medium of instruction was English. He moved to Bombay in 1948 and worked in the Election Commission for the first general election of independent India. Later he became an employee of B.E.S.T.
He was also editor of Poinnari and later, after leaving Poinnari in 1959, Cha. Fra. D'Costa started Konkani periodicals such as Zag-mag, Vixal Konkonn (1961), Jivit (1983), and Udev (1976).
He won the Central Sahitya Akademi Award in 1989.