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Wenceslau de Moraes: the Portuguese writer who went from Macau harbour officer to chronicler of Japan
Wenceslau de Moraes
A Portuguese naval officer and writer. From 1888 to 1899 he was posted in Macau as a deputy harbour officer and taught at the seminary and the lyceum, beginning his Far East writing there. He later settled in Japan, becoming one of the Portuguese-speaking world's foremost interpreters of Japan — "the Portuguese Lafcadio Hearn".
Henrique de Senna Fernandes: the Macanese novelist who chronicled the city in fiction
Henrique de Senna Fernandes
Henrique de Senna Fernandes (1923–2010) was a Macanese writer and lawyer. He studied law at the University of Coimbra in Portugal and wrote in Portuguese, setting much of his work in the Macau of the 1930s and 1940s and portraying the lives of the territory's mixed-race community. His novels A Trança Feiticeira (The Bewitching Braid) and Amor e Dedinhos de Pé were both adapted into films. Regarded as a guardian of Macau's memory, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Macau in 2006.
Un Sio San: the Macau-born poet on the international stage
Un Sio San
A Macau-born contemporary poet and writer regarded as one of Macau's leading younger poets. Educated at Peking University and the University of Toronto, she is the author of several collections including Exile in the Blossom Time, Naked Picnic and Evolution of Love, and a multiple winner of the Macao Literature Award and cross-strait poetry prizes, with work featured at international poetry festivals.