Fernando Magro

Poet. Fernando de Pinho Valente, his real name, graduated in Engineering from the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (1956), attended the Pedagogical Sciences course at the Faculty of Letters of Coimbra (1957), and was a technical engineer at the Junta Autónoma das Estradas de Viseu from 1958 to 1997. From 1976 to 1979, he was a member of the Viseu Municipal Assembly. He contributed to Notícias da Tarde, O Primeiro de Janeiro, O Comércio do Porto, Jornal de Viseu, and the magazine Viseu Ilustrado, of which he was director.