Caridade Damaciano Fernandes (1904 – 7 October 1948) was a prolific Portuguese Konkani novelist and a pioneer of prose fiction writing in that language.
For some years, he wrote and published a small book every week via the Victoria Printing Press in the city then called Bombay.
Brazinho Soares Kalafurkar, a Santa Cruz, Goa, based avid collector of the Konkani printed word, has said that Fernandes wrote and (probably self-published) around 101 romans novels.
[4] Their content focused on gripping tales of adventure and romance, featuring stereotyped characters, love-scenes, and endings characterized by poetic justice.
[5] Caridade Damacian's last book was Goenchem Colvont ('the Goan whore'), written in the year of his passing in 1947, and printed by the Mapusa-based Tipografia Laxmi.
[2] Caridade Damacian is also known to have composed diverse songs for the plays staged by village youth for the Christmas season, usually organised between December 26 to January 6.
[2] He is credited with having started the Bhurgeanchem Fest (Feast for Children) at the Chapel of the Holy Cross, in honour of St Luis Gonzaga, near his home at his ward.
[6] At a function held in October 2019, he was termed a "novelist, journalist, song composer and celebrated literary son of Goa" and also called the "Romansincho Bapui" (Father of Konkani Novels).