Orlando da Costa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Orlando da Costa

Portuguese writer

Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1929

Place of Birth: Maputo, Mozambique

Date of Death: 27-Jan-2006

Profession: writer, politician

Nationality: Portugal, India

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Orlando António Fernandes da Costa (July 1929, Maputo - 27 January 2006) was a Portuguese writer.
Who has been writing to express his experiences of life in Goa.
According to Everton Machado, his book O Último Olhar de Manú Miranda is a good introduction to know Indo-Portuguese literature.
He was the father of current Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa.During the 1950s, Orlando da Costa spent most of his time in the House of the Students of the Empire, an institution mainly built to house students from the colonies that were studying in the metropole.
There, he came in contact with many of the future leaders of the nationalist movements of the colonies, such as the MPLA, the FRELIMO and the PAIGC.
Between 1950 and 1953 he was arrested three times by the Salazar government.