Orlando da Costa

Orlando António Fernandes da Costa was a Portuguese writer of Goan paternal and Portuguese-French maternal descent whose writings express his experiences of life in Goa. According to Everton Machado, his book O Último Olhar de Manú Miranda is a good introduction to know Indo-Portuguese literature. 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. Costa was maternal cousin to Sérgio Vieira, a politician in Mozambique.