Artur Inez

Novelist, poet, and journalist. He began his career in the literary magazine Trova Popular (1919-1921), of which he was an editor from the very first issue. There he published chronicles, verses, and fado lyrics (his fondness for the arena arts should also be noted) and the Cartas a Mademoiselle X, the latter under the pseudonym Rui de Salvaterra. He even announced the rehearsals of an operetta, A Rosa do Jardim, in partnership with Venceslau de Oliveira, in 1921. An editor for O Século and Diário Popular, he was also linked to sports periodicals, having founded the magazines Eco dos Sports and O Ás. He is responsible for the creation, in 1934, of the weekly O Diabo, one of our first literary newspapers, which subsequently had other directors (Ferreira de Castro, Rodrigues Lapa, Braz Burity, Adolfo Barbosa, Guilherme Morgado, and finally Manuel Campos Lima, in 1940); this newspaper marked an era. In República, where he became managing editor in 1945, he published Artur Inez's fearless reply to an article by António Ferro, «A morte do sebastianismo» (Diário de Notícias, 12-4-1933), a reply later published as a pamphlet, Oiça, António Ferro! (with a preface-letter by Ribeiro de Carvalho). There he declared himself a republican and a democrat. He served as director of the Lisbon Press Professionals Union and its respective Provident Fund.