Oliveira Vidal

Poet and prose writer, whose full name is José Cândido Celestino Valente Gomes de Oliveira Vidal. He attended the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes, which he left to enlist in the Merchant Navy, where he went on to complete the officer's course. His background also includes work as an illustrator and costume designer, having created costumes for cinema, namely for the film Ave de Arribação. Some of his short stories were published in the newspapers Diário Popular and Diário de Lisboa. His work Os Navios (1960), written for the Companhia Nacional de Educação de Adultos, remains unpublished.