Manuel C. Rodrigues

Manuel C. Rodrigues was an early Goan poet and writer, who expressed himself in the English language. He was also an artist, as well as a trained singer and conductor. He is also known as Manoel C. Rodrigues.

Selected works

Verse

Selected Poems, Bombay 1978. Rs 10.Homeward, G. V. Bhave, 1939.

Short stories

Still-life and other stories, Coastal Observer, 1984.

Essays, etc

'Armando Menezes: The Lyrist, A fundamentally religious poet'. The Goan World, Bombay, Jan. 1939, 31.
'Mar-Jakin', Goa Today, August 1976.

Personal life

His two-centuries old family home is located in the coastal village turned tourist-destination of Calangute just off the Baga-Calangute Road near the Our Lady of Piety Chapel.
His brother, the much-awarded Olimpio Coleto Rodrigues, who was born in 1915, is also considered to be a world renowned Goan artist and avid collector of antique furniture and objects who "Indianised" Christian Art. According to media reports, in 1950 he was awarded the opportunity to paint a fresco just 200 yards from the Sistine Chapel within the Vatican.