Damodar Mauzo is a Konkani novelist and short fiction writer, scriptwriter and a critic. His 1983 Sahitya Akademi Award winning novel Karmelin is translated into over a dozen languages. This three-times award winning scriptwriter has written five films of which two have won the national awards. He ran a shop in his native Goa village for 46 years for a living which he shuttered in 2013.