This is a list of fiction writers from the region of Goa, a former Portuguese colony on the west coast of India, and writers from the Goan diaspora. Goans have written in as many as 13 different languages, according to critic Peter Nazareth. * Francisco Luis Gomes * Orlando da Costa * Leslie de Noronha * Sonia Faleiro * Damodar Mauzo * Pundalik Naik * Victor Rangel-Ribeiro * Manohar Shetty * Lambert Mascarenhas * Tony Fernandes * Amita Kanekar * Peter Nazareth * Eunice De Souza * Manuel C. Rodrigues * Jerry Pinto * Antonio Gomes * Ben Antao * Caridade Damaciano Fernandes