José dos Santos Ferreira, better known as Adé (28 July 1919, in

Portuguese Macau Portuguese Macau (officially the Province of Macau until 1976, and then the Autonomous Region of Macau from 1976 to 1999) was a Portuguese Empire, Portuguese colony that existed from the first official Portuguese settlement in 1557 to the ...

– 24 March 1993, in

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), was a Hong Kong poet. He was a son of Portuguese father and a

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mother. He was the last poet of distinction to write in Macanese (''Patuá''), the Portuguese-

creole. Adé lived all his life in Macau and left behind a great body of work consisting of 18 books of poetry, prose, plays, operettas, and radio shows in Patua. Adé wrote, directed, and acted in his own productions.

Partial bibliography

* ''Escandinávia, Região de Encantos Mil'' (1960). * ''Macau sa Assi'' (in patois) (1968). * ''Qui-nova chencho. Macau: Tipografia da Missão do Padroado'' (1974). * ''Papiá cristá di Macau: Epitome de gramática comparada e vocabulário : dialecto macaense''. Macau: .n.(1978). * ''Bilhar e Caridade'' (poetry) (1982) * ''Macau di tempo antigo: Poesia e prosa: dialecto macaense''. Macau: author's edition (1985). * ''Poéma di Macau'' (poetry, em patois)(1983) * 'Nhum Vêlo' (in patois) (1986) * ''Poéma na língu maquista (Poesia em papel-de-arroz)''. Macau: Livros do Oriente (1992). 1919 births 1993 deaths Culture of Macau Macanese people Macau people of Portuguese descent Hong Kong poets Portuguese male poets 20th-century Portuguese poets {{Portugal-poet-stub Hong Kong people of Portuguese descent