Paul Melo e Castro lectures in Portuguese and Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow. He has a long-standing interest in the Portuguese-language literature of Goa and is an occasional translator. His translations of Goan literature have appeared in The Bombay Review, Out of Print, Indian Literature, Muse India and Govapuri, amongst others. He is the translator of Augusto do Rosário Rodrigues’s Regional Tales, Under The Peepal Tree, 2023, Maria Elsa da Rocha’s Life Stories, Goa 1556, 2023 and Vimala Devi’s Monsoon, Seagull, 2019. A translation of Epitácio Pais’s collected stories, entitled Weeds in the Red Dust, is forthcoming from Under the Peepal Tree Press.
