Nice to know someone's showing some interest in Walfrido Antao's literary efforts. Not equipped with Portuguese, I have yet to sample
any of his work, save for an ultra-short story rendered in English in some collection the title of which will come to me as soon as I've sent this post off. You may perhaps know that Walfrido lived in Arossim (he would emphasise this), which you come to by way of Majorda or Cansaulim. His family lives there, and a phone call should yield some of the info your friend seeks. I met Walfrido in the mid-eighties and know him mainly in his avatar as Alcoholics Anonymous evangelist, and one who may be held responsible for the teetotaling ways of n number of people in south Goa.They said as much on his 18th birthday of sobriety, somewhere in the 90s, at a party I was fortunate enough to be invited to, and where I discovered that it's possible to have a jolly good time without first taking a peg or two. I wonder if Walfrido had a story on this aspect of his life and I hope your friend enlightens us accordingly, preferably in English. The sobered mining engineer and the ditto woman clerk from Goa Shipyard would also be good sources of information about this ex-Director of Information. Your friend may also wish to go into Walfrido's visit to Paris. A mutual friend (alas, also no more), thought it significant that Jean-Paul de Sartre (ignore the bad press he gets today) left word at a cafe that he should be sent for no sooner Walfrido came over. Why was Sartre so anxious to meet Walfrido, and, did they meet, and if they did, did Sartre, or Walfrido himself, write about it somewhere?
