José da Silva Coelho

José da Silva Coelho
Born1889
Margão, Goa, Portuguese India
Died1944 (aged 5455)
Occupation
  • Writer
  • journalist
NationalityPortuguese

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.