José da Silva Coelho
José da Silva Coelho | |
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| Born | 1889 Margão, Goa, Portuguese India |
| Died | 1944 (aged 54–55) |
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| Nationality | Portuguese |
José da Silva Coelho (1889 – 1944) was a Goan author of several dozen pieces of wickedly satirical short fiction in the 1920s and 1930s, published for the most part in the Portuguese-language newspaper O Heraldo. He is easily the most prolific Goan fictionist in Portuguese.