Agostinho Fernandes (2 July 1932 – 29 June 2015) was a Portuguese writer and cardiologist who was the author of one of Goa's key post-colonial novels, Bodki (1962), which had attracted significant critical attention.
He was a Member of Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia and the European Society of Cardiology.
In the words of Everton V. Machado, The constant clash between modern convictions of the elite raised in a Christian environment and the popular beliefs among the lower social strata of Goa must be re-emphasized within the set of Indo-Portuguese themes, as is very clearly illustrated in the novel Bodki ...
In it, a young physician from the capital finds himself confronting the superstitions of the people of a village, especially those who marginalize the bodki, a Hindu widow, considered to be responsible for all the bad happenings that took place there.
[2]Fernandes was involved in journalism in Goa, Angola and Portugal;[3] wrote a number of unpublished plays in Konkani; and the poetry collection Os Meus proprios pedaços.