Biography

He worked in a newspaper printing house, until he graduated journalist of Comércio do Porto, a large daily paper in the North of Portugal. When he was 20, he had already written five novels, among which "A Rosa do Adro", first published in 1870. He would also wrote librettos for a few operettas, among which "Na Lua" (on the moon). His hobby was amateur archeology. He remained obscure all his life, slightly put down by literary critics. He never knew his "Rosa do Adro" would be re-written for the stage in 1899, and brought to the movies with enormous popular success, starting with A Rosa do Adro (1919). Immediately after this film had been shown in Oporto and then Lisbon, the book went to press in its 24th edition, with a cover based on a big picture of beautiful Maria de Oliveira as Rosa do Adro. The book kept being reimpressed and re-edited through the 20th century, by the thousands and thousands, and is one of the top literary sales of the 20th century in Portugal, except for books of mandatory reading in high-schools.
- IMDb mini biography by: Artemis-9