J. J. Monteiro

Emigrant, soldier, civil servant and poet, J. J. Monteiro wrote profusely about Macau, the land which he loved and that adopted him. In 1983 he published Macau Vista por Dentro (Macau Inside Views), a work that received high praise from Fr. Benjamim Videira Pires, Adé Santos Ferreira and António Aresta. He had previously published A Minha Viagem para Macau (1939); A História de um Soldado (1940); De Volta a Macau (1957).