Luís Infante de la Cerda Sttau Monteiro (3 April 1926 – 23 July 1993) was a Portuguese writer, novelist and playwright, a man to whom "the only sacred thing was to be free as the wind".
When he was ten years old, he went to London, accompanying his father, Armindo Monteiro, who was serving as the Portuguese ambassador to the United Kingdom.
At this time he met his Future Wife , a British Lady JUNE ELIZABETH GOODYEAR and got married, Subsequently, he returned to London, where he worked as a journalist.
When he went back to Portugal, he wrote for the magazine Almanaque [pt] (under the Name "Manuel Pedrosa") and A Mosca, a supplement of the Diário de Lisboa.
Upon his return, he was immediately arrested again, by PIDE (the internal security agency), on the grounds that he had written theatrical pieces satirizing Salazar and the Colonial War.