Here in Portugal we had another random writer named Miguel Torga, that wasnt his real name but we know him like that, he is known as the hillbilly lucky enough to be a writer.

Born in Trás-os-montes, Portugal’s mountain region that no one cares about (even more forgotten than Alentejo!). He was lucky enough to leave that region and work at a rich uncle’s house at another city and then work in Brazil where he was able to go to school and become the first portuguese hillbilly to write a book.

His magnum opus is named Contos da Montanha and its just 23 stories about how was life in rural Portugal before the internet, basically what any grandfather tells to his grandsons during christmas: that the dictatorship was bad, that uncle Fernando crossed the river to go to France, that people didnt go to school…

All his books are about this, the life of people on the city and on the countryside, really boring books.

And the worst part is that some of his books are translated to chinese!, I cant believe that some chinese man had to translate such bad books…

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The greatest misfortune that can befall an artist is to start with literature instead of life.

- Miguel Torga