Fidelino de Figueiredo

However, university teaching led him to live abroad for about a decade and a half, primarily in Brazil.

He contributed to the national and foreign press, acting as editor of some of the most prestigious periodicals of his time, such as El Debate, from Madrid, O Jornal, from Rio de Janeiro, and the North American Land and Freedom, among other newspapers and magazines.

In Brazil, where he lived for several years until his return to Portugal, he directed, between 1938-1954, the magazine Letras and exercised a decisive influence on later scholars of Portuguese literature teaching figures such as Cleonice Berardinelli.

His literary estate, including a vast quantity of correspondence, is deposited at the University of Sao Paulo, where he taught.

Perhaps the most important was given to him in 1941, in Japan, for his essay "The Japanese in Portuguese Literature", which won the Tokyo International Literary Competition.