{{Short description|Portuguese writer (1929–2006)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}} {{for|the footballer|Orlando da Costa (footballer)}} {{Infobox person | name = Orlando da Costa | image = | caption = | birth_name = Orlando António Fernandes da Costa | birth_place = [[Lourenço Marques]], [[Portuguese Mozambique]] | birth_date = July 1929 | death_date = {{dda|2006|1|27|1929|df=y}} | occupation = Writer | children = [[Antonio Costa]] (son) | spouse = [[Maria Antónia Palla]] (divorced) | relatives = [[Sérgio Vieira (politician)|Sérgio Vieira]] (cousin) }}
'''Orlando António Fernandes da Costa''' (July 1929 − 27 January 2006) was a Portuguese writer of [[Goans|Goan]] paternal and Portuguese-French<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Portugal PM likely to release a book in Goa: Written by born in Mozambique father, Orlando Costa |url=https://clubofmozambique.com/news/portugal-pm-likely-release-book-goa-written-born-mozambique-father-orlando-costa/ |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=Mozambique |language=en-US}}</ref> maternal descent whose writings express his experiences of life in [[Goa]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-kloBwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Orlando+da+Costa%22+goa&pg=PA229|title=Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011: The making of the Luso-Asian world, intricacies of engagement|last=Jarnagin|first=Laura|date=2011|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=9789814345255|pages=229–237|language=en}}</ref> According to Everton Machado, his book ''O Último Olhar de Manú Miranda'' is a good introduction to know Indo-Portuguese literature.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rhxqDwAAQBAJ&dq=O+%C3%9Altimo+Olhar+de+Man%C3%BA+Miranda&pg=PT173|title=Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011|last=Jarnagin|first=Laura|date=2003-08-01|publisher=Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.|isbn=9789814517652|language=en|chapter=Indo-Portuguese Literature and the Goa of Its Writers}}</ref> He was the father of the current [[President of the European Council]] and the former Portuguese Prime Minister [[Antonio Costa]], by his first wife [[Maria Antónia Palla]].<ref>[http://www.outlookindia.com/article/Then-Came-A-Gandhi/289192 Then Came A Gandhi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112232922/http://www.outlookindia.com/article/Then-Came-A-Gandhi/289192# |date=2014-11-12 }}, outlookindia.com, retrieved 10 September 2015</ref> Costa was maternal cousin to [[Sérgio Vieira (politician)|Sérgio Vieira]], a politician in Mozambique.<ref name="Group 2007">{{cite web | last=Group | first=Global Media | title=Das castas altas da Índia | website=DN | date=May 25, 2007 | url=https://www.dn.pt/arquivo/2007/das-castas-altas-da-india-658273.html | language=pt | access-date=Jan 31, 2022}}</ref>
==Biography== After being raised in [[Margão]], [[Portuguese Goa]], Costa spent in the 1950s, most of his time in [[Casa dos Estudantes do Império]], an institution mainly built to house students from the [[Portuguese colonies]] that were studying in the [[metropole]]. There, he came in contact with many of the future leaders of the nationalist movements of the colonies, such as the [[MPLA]], the [[FRELIMO]] and the [[African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde|PAIGC]]. Between 1950 and 1953, he was arrested three times by the [[António de Oliveira Salazar|Salazar]] government.<ref>Ben Antao, 'Goan Literature in English', ''Muse India'', 64 (November–December 2015), {{cite web |url=http://www.museindia.com/focuscontent.asp?issid=50&id=4273 |title=Welcome to Muse India |access-date=2015-12-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010241/http://www.museindia.com/focuscontent.asp?issid=50&id=4273 |archive-date=2016-03-05 }}.</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fWlMV5lVSpYC&dq=%22Orlando+da+Costa%22+goa&pg=PA5|title=Goa and Portugal: Their Cultural Links|last1=Borges|first1=Charles J.|last2=Feldmann|first2=Helmut|date=1997|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=9788170226598|language=en|chapter=Goa in the novel o signo da era by Orlando da Costa}}</ref> A few days before he died, on January 5, 2006, he received from [[Jorge Sampaio]]'s hands the degree of Commander of the Order of Liberty.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ENTIDADES NACIONAIS AGRACIADAS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS - Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas |url=https://www.ordens.presidencia.pt/?idc=153 |access-date=2023-06-12 |website=www.ordens.presidencia.pt}}</ref>
==Bibliography== * 1951 − ''A Estrada e a Voz''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-n0VAQAAMAAJ&q=A+Estrada+e+a+Voz|title=A estrada e a voz: poemas|last=Costa|first=Orlando da|date=1951|publisher=Centro bibliográfico|language=pt}}</ref> * 1953 − ''Os Olhos sem Fronteira''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kLYlnQAACAAJ|title=Os olhos sem fronteiras, poemas|last=Costa|first=Orlando da|date=1953|publisher=Centro Bibliográfico|language=en}}</ref> * 1955 − ''Sete Odes do Canto Comum'' * 1961 − ''O Signo da Ira'' * 1964 − ''Podem Chamar-me Eurídice'' * 1971 − ''Sem Flores nem Coroas'' * 1979 − ''Canto Civil'' * 1984 − ''A Como Estão os Cravos Hoje?'' * 1994 − ''Os Netos de Norton'' * 2000 − ''O Último Olhar de Manú Miranda''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oMEfAQAAIAAJ&q=O+%C3%9Altimo+Olhar+de+Man%C3%BA+Miranda|title=O último olhar de Manú Miranda|last=Costa|first=Orlando da|date=2000|publisher=Ancora Editora|isbn=9789727800520|language=pt}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://archiveofgoanwritinginportuguese.blogspot.com/2012/02/leopoldo-da-rocha-o-signo-da-ira-de.html Review of "O Signo da Ira" by Leopoldo da Rocha] {{in lang|pt}}
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