Eunice de Souza

Eunice de Souza (born 1940) is a contemporary Indian Novels

English language poet, literary critic and novelist. Among
her notable books of poetry is Women in Dutch painting
Dangerlok. (Penguin, 2001) review extract
(1988).
Dev & Simran: A Novel. (Penguin, 2003) review

Early life and education

Interviews

Eunice de Souza was born and grew up in Pune, in a Goan

Conversations with Indian Poets. (OUP, 2001) ISBN
Catholic family.[1] She studied English literature with an
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MA from the Marquette University[2] in Wisconsin, and a
PhD from the University of Mumbai. She taught English Edited
at St. Xaviers College, Mumbai, and was Head of the
Department until her recent retirement. She was involved
Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology. (OUP,
in the well known literary festival Ithaka organized at the
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college.
101 Folktales From India. (2004)

She has also been involved in theater, both as actress and

director. She began writing novels with Dangerlok in
2001. She has also written four childrens books.

Purdah: An Anthology. (OUP, 2004) ISBN 0-19566661-5

She hints at an ancestral Portuguese conversion in the

poem de Souza Prabhu:

Womens Voices: Selections from Nineteenth and

Early Twentieth Century Indian Writing in English.
(OUP, 2004) ISBN 978-0-19-566785-1 review

No, I'm not going to

delve deep down and discover

Early Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology 18291947. (OUP, 2005) ISBN 978-0-19-567724-9

I'm really de Souza Prabhu

review

even if Prabhu was no fool

The Satthianadhan Family Album.

Akademi, 2005) review

and got the best of both worlds.

(Catholic Brahmin!

(Sahitya

I can hear his fat chuckle still.)[3]

3 References

Aside from poetry and ction, de Souza has edited numerous anthologies and collections and writes a weekly
column for the Mumbai Mirror. She currently lives in
Mumbai.

[1] Eunice De Souza (Arlindo Correias Home Page) Accessed: January 20, 2007.
[2] http://www.cs.rice.edu/~{}ssiyer/minstrels/index_poet_
S.html#Souza

Works

[3] Arvind K Mehrotra, ed. (1993). The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-562867-5.p. 119

Poetry
Fix. (1979)

4 External links

Women in Dutch Painting. (1988)

Ways of Belonging. (1990)

Weekly Column at Mumbai Mirror

Selected and New Poems. (1994)

Poems (English) & commentary (Portuguese)

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5 SEE ALSO

See also
Indian English Literature
Indian Writing in English

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