[1] A multifaceted personality – poet, novelist, essayist, critic, painter – Mário Dionísio had a significant civic and cultural impact on 20th-century Portugal, particularly in the realms of literature and art.
[2] Mário Dionísio de Assis Monteiro was born on July 16, 1916, in Lisbon.
[4] Mário Dionísio was an opponent of the Estado Novo regime and had connections to the Portuguese Communist Party, from which he distanced himself in the 1950s.
[4] He was the author of an independent literary work (poetry, short stories, novels).
He also wrote prefaces for works by authors such as Manuel da Fonseca, Carlos de Oliveira, José Cardoso Pires, and Alves Redol.