Lino de Abreu

He completed all his studies in English, finishing his university preparatory studies in Poona in 1934 with distinction in Latin. In 1947, he graduated with a degree in Arts from the University of Bombay. While still a student in Poona, he made his debut with a small book of fiction in French titled Lettres a Madame Pommeret, which was published in Nova Goa in 1947. As a poet, he debuted in 1958 with a book written in alexandrine verse, intended as a guidebook to Goa. His most interesting work, however, is the book A Infiel, taking up the theme of the bailadeira (dancing girl) which, according to Vimala Devi, "is a highly emotional poem, uncommon in modern literatures, but which cannot be denied to be charged with poetry of a baroque quality".