Pundalik Narayan Naik is a noted Konkani language

Konkani language

KonkaniKonkani is a name given to a group of several cognate dialects spoken along the narrow strip of land called Konkan, on the west coast of India. This is, however, somewhat an over-generalisation. Geographically, Konkan is defined roughly as the area between the river Damanganga to the north...

 poet, short-story writer, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter from Goa

Goa

Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...

. He has40 books and two films to his credit. He served as the President of Goa Konkani Akademi

Goa Konkani Akademi

The Goa Konkani Akademi is an organization set up by the Government of Goa in 1986 to promote Konkani in Goa. Its stated aim is to accelerate the pace of development of Konkani by encouraging writers, researchers, etc. and to bring Konkanis from all areas together.-Nature:The Goa Konkani Akademi...

 (Goa Academy of Letters for Konkani) of the Government of Goa

Government of Goa

The Government of Goa has a unicameral legislature consisting of a forty member Legislative Assembly, headed by a Chief Minister who wields the executive power. The present Chief Minister of Goa is Mr. Digamber Kamat and the Leader of Opposition is Mr. Manohar Parrikar...

 since 2002. His novel Acchev(The Upheaval, 1977) and the first Konkani novel to be translated into English, is considered a landmark in the history of the language.

He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award

Sahitya Akademi Award

Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languagesAssamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,...

 in Konkani for his work, Chowrang, in 1984, by Sahitya Akademi

Sahitya Akademi

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, India's National Academy of Letters. He was awarded the Gomant Sharda Puraskar for Lifetime Achievement in 2010.

Works in translation

• Upheaval (Achhev), tr. by Vidya Pai. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0195660390.