Fernando Monteiro de Castro Soromenho
Fernando Monteiro de Castro Soromenho (Chinde District, Mozambique, 31 January 1910 – São Paulo, 18 June 1968) was a Portuguese journalist and writer of fiction and ethnology. He is regarded both as a Portuguese neo-realist and a novelist of Angolan literature. Biography Born in Mozambique, Castro Soromenho was the son of Artur Ernesto de Castro Soromenho, governor of Lunda, and Stela Fernançole de Leça Monteiro, a native of Porto from a Cape Verdean family. When he was one year old, they moved to Angola. Between 1916 and 1925, he attended primary and secondary school in Lisbon. He then returned to Angola, where he worked for an Angolan diamond company. Following that, he began an entry-level position in government administration, serving in the hinterlands in the eastern region of the colony. Later, he became an editor of the newspaper Diário de Luanda. In 1937 he returned to Lisbon where he worked at several newspapers such as Humanidade (the weekly edition of the Diário Popular), A Noite, Jornal da Tarde, O Século, Seara Nova, O Diabo, O Primeiro de Janeiro and Dom Casmurro. He also collaborated on an account of the Portuguese explorers in Africa, No. 12 of the magazine Mundo literário