José dos Santos Ferreira
# José dos Santos Ferreira

José dos Santos Ferreira, better known as Adé (28 July 1919, in Portuguese Macau – 24 March 1993, in Hong Kong), was a Hong Kong poet. He was a son of Portuguese father and a Cantonese 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). ISBN 972-9418-10-1
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