Orlando António Fernandes da Costa (July 1929 − 27 January 2006) was a Portuguese writer of Goan paternal and Mozambican-French maternal descent whose writings express his experiences of life in Goa.
[1] According to Everton Machado, his book O Último Olhar de Manú Miranda is a good introduction to know Indo-Portuguese literature.
[2] He was the father of the current President of the European Council and the former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa, by his first wife Maria Antónia Palla.
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.
[5][6] A few days before he died, on January 5, 2006, he received from Jorge Sampaio's hands the degree of Commander of the Order of Liberty.