The aim of this chapter is to consider the afterlife of literature in the Portuguese language in Goa, an erstwhile Portuguese colony (1510–1961). This is a long-standing tradition that, like most colonial literary traditions, was born from the synergy between colonisers and colonised, in this case, Portuguese and Indian culture and society. If the first narratives in the Portuguese language from Goa were written in the sixteenth century by the Portuguese newcomers who reported about life in the new colony (Devi and Seabra 1971), it is in the nineteenth century that some of the most outstanding fiction writers in the Portuguese language emerge in Goa, the first of whom was Francisco Luis Gomes (1829–1869), author of Os brahamanes [The Brahmins] (1866); Leopoldo Dias (1854–1903) with Os Maharatas. Paisagens [Os Maharatas. Indian Landscapes] (1894) and Francisco João da Costa, GIP (1864–1901) with his novel of manners, Jacob e Dulce. Cenas da vida Indiana [Jacob and Dulce. Scenes of Indian Life] (1896), published in a serial form in the Goan periodical Ultramar. Due to the limited readership and the small number of publishing houses in Goa (Noronha 2020), short stories and poems were the most prominent literary genres published in the local dailies in Portuguese (see Lobo 2013; Machado 2022; Garmes 2023), such as the short stories by Júlio Gonçalves (1846–1896), José da Silva Coelho (1889–1944), Ananta Rau Sar Dessai (1910–?) and Telo de Mascarenhas (1899–1979) (see Devi and Seabra 1971; Melo e Castro 2016; Spina 2020). These writers helped found a 400-year-old literary tradition in the Portuguese language that is worth studying today.