Ben Antao

Ben Antao was born in Velim, Goa, Portuguese India during the Portuguese Empire (now in India). He graduated from the University of Bombay (M.A. in English).^{[citation needed]}

Antao first worked as a reporter for The Navhind Times in Panjim, Goa (1963–64) and later joined The Indian Express (1965–66) in Bombay as a reporter. In 1966, he was awarded a journalism fellowship by the World Press Institute based at Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota, for a year of study and travel in the United States.^[4] While in the US, he worked for ten weeks as a writer and editor for The Denver Post, CO. After immigrating to Canada in 1967, he worked for The Catholic Register weekly and The Globe and Mail, both of Toronto.^{[citation needed]}

In 1976, he graduated from the University of Toronto (B.Ed) and switched to a teaching career. He retired from teaching English in high school in 1998.^[5]

In 1990, he published Images of Goa, a memoir of his early life and experiences in his native land. In 2004, he published Goa, A Rediscovery, a travelogue of his visit to Goa. He has written five novels, over two dozen short stories, a play and a movie script based on his novel The Tailor's Daughter.^[6] His other novels are Blood & Nemesis, Penance, Living on the Market,^[7] The Priest and His Karma, and Money and Politics.^[8] His non-fiction includes two memoirs: Images of Goa (2011, 2ed)^[9] and Images of the USA (2009), and two travelogues: Goa, A Rediscovery (2004)^[10] and The Lands of Sicily (2008).^[11][12][13]

Antao is a former president of the Canadian Authors Association (Toronto branch).^[11]