The Goan writer José da Silva Coelho was the author of several dozen pieces of wickedly satirical short fiction in the 1920s and 1930s, published for the most part in the Portuguese-language newspaper O Heraldo.
Background
José da Silva Coelho was born in Margão in 1889, one of fifteen children (among them Mario da Silva Coelho, himself a prominent poet). After attending the lyceum in Panjim and pursuing private law studies he became a public notary, working at first as an assistant to his father (also a notary public), then on a posting to Damão, and then in Bicholim in the Novas Conquistas, where he worked for the rest of his life.
Career
He is "easily the most prolific Goan fictionist in Portuguese". He was a keen hunter (which took him all over the interior of Goa) and spoke fluent Konkani, and "was apparently something of a dandy and an epicurean". The Hesitations of Damião and His First Love
Paul Melo e Castro (transport), Lengthening Shadows, 2 vols (Saligão: Goa, 1556, 2016), I pp.
97-120 (five stories).