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Deolinda da Conceição: Macau's pioneering Macanese woman writer and journalist
Deolinda da Conceição
Deolinda da Conceição (1913–1957) is regarded as Macau's first Macanese woman writer and journalist. Writing in Portuguese, she ran a women's column in a Macau newspaper. In 1956 she published her only book, the short-story collection Cheong-Sam — A Cabaia, centred on the fate and suffering of Chinese women, regarded as a pioneering work of Macanese Portuguese-language literature.
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.