José Maria Ferreira de Castro

José Maria Ferreira de Castro was born on 24 May 1898 in Ossela, near Oliveira de Azeméis, into a family of poor peasants. Fatherless at eight, he emigrated to Brazil in 1911, at twelve, and spent nearly four years on a rubber estate in Amazonia. Back in Portugal in 1919, he lived from journalism, made a trip around the world at the start of the Second World War and was a constant opponent of Salazar; he was put forward for the Nobel Prize. He died in Porto on 29 June 1974, two months after the Carnation Revolution.

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