José dos Santos Ferreira, better known as Adé, was born in
Portuguese Macau on
28 July 1919 and died in
Hong Kong on
24 March 1993. Born to a father from
metropolitan Portugal 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.
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