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5th Annual Konkan Fruit Fest
Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road, Panaji, Goa
16-18, May 2008
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html
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Source: 18 May 2008: Oeste Online (Portuguese).
Excerpts: The feminist pioneer and writer Rosalina Filomena da Cunha was
born in Santa Cruz, Goa 1908. The Municipal Library of Alcobaça hosts a
celebration on 18 May, the centenary of her birth ... [She died in 2006,
aged 98 years] and lived in Alcobaça for several decades
The highlight
will be the release of new editions of some of her works
219 words.
Full text at http://www.oesteonline.pt/noticias/noticia.asp?nid=19017
Filomena da Cunha studied at Cambridge University and Trinity College of
Music in the 1920s. She went to Goa in the 1930s, wrote for the Herald
and campaigned for womens rights. For more about see
http://www.novaopiniao.info/new/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45
&Itemid=37
The articles are in Portuguese so please excuse my errors in translation.
I am uncertain if she died in 2006 or 2007. Can you help, please?
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Eddie Fernandes
