Ferreira de Castro

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Ferreira de Castro
Photograph from c. 1933
Born	José Maria Ferreira de Castro (1898-05-24)24 May 1898 Oliveira de Azeméis, Portugal
Died	29 June 1974(1974-06-29) (aged 76) Porto, Portugal
Burial place	Sintra Mountains
Occupation	Journalist
Notable work	A Selva (1930)
Movement	Neorealism
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José Maria Ferreira de Castro (24 May 1898 – 29 June 1974) was a Portuguese writer and journalist. Ferreira de Castro had a long career in journalism, and considered his fiction writing to be an extension of his documentary reporting; in that regard, he is considered to be one of the fathers of contemporary Portuguese social-realist (or neorealist) fiction,^[1] a forerunner of socially committed literature about the rural and working classes later further established by Alves Redol, and more than once a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.^[2][3]

Ferreira de Castro was part of the group of noted public intellectuals that were opposed to the authoritarian Estado Novo regime; despite his participation in almost every pacific action directed against the regime, his national and international recognition as an acclaimed novelist meant he was never a victim of excessively violent repression, such as prison, torture or loss of political rights.^[4]