José dos Santos Ferreira

José dos Santos Ferreira, better known as Adé (28 July 1919, in Portuguese Macau – 24 March 1993, in Hong Kong), is a son of metropolitan Portugal father and a Macanese mother. He was the last poet of distinction to write in Macanese (Patuá), the Portuguese-Cantonese 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: [s.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).  

Category:1919 births
Category:1993 deaths
Category:Culture of Macau
Category:Macanese people
Category:Macau people of Portuguese descent
Category:Hong Kong poets
Category:Portuguese male poets
Category:20th-century Portuguese poets