Media Release

Mangaluru, Feb 8: The book titled ‘Ten Houses around a Church’, a translated work of Dr Sylvia Rego, department of English, St Aloysius (Deemed to be University), was released on February 6 during a literary festival, KENSHO organised by the department of English which was published by St Aloysius Prakashana.

The book ‘Ten Houses around a Church’ is a translation of a Kannada novel, ‘Igarji Suttalina Hattu Manegalu’ by the renowned writer the late Na D'Souza.

Besides this, Dr Sylvia Rego has written a book on Konkani folktales, ‘The Tree-Spirit and other Konkani Folktales.' Her second book is a translation, ‘Three Plays of Cha Fra D'Costa'.

Dr Sylvia Rego has taught English literature for more than 30 years at St Aloysius College. She is a research guide for Mangalore University and has many scholars pursuing PhD under her. She had presented more than seventy research papers at national and international seminars, and published many research papers in refereed journals. She has also done five minor research projects sponsored by the UGC and by the university. She has been a resource person for several programmes and has chaired many sessions at national conferences. Her areas of interest are cultural studies, folkfore and gender studies.

The late Na D'Souza, author of more than forty novels, many short stories and plays, hailed from Sagar. He had received Central Sahitya Akademi's Bala Sahitya Puraskar for his children novel Mulugadeya Oorige Bandavaru. His works include ecological and socio-cultural concerns.

Some of his works are - Bamonn, Kaithan Gandhi's Freedom Struggle, Dweepa, Kadina Benki, Mulugade, Kolaga, Kunjaalu Kaniveya Kempu Hoovu, Sistina Shivappa Naika, Aasare, Hakkigondhu Goodu Kodi, and many others. Some of these are translated to English while a few have been made into movies that have won awards and accolades.