author

Alberto Leal Barradas Monteiro Braga

1851–1911

A Portuguese journalist and storyteller, he wrote with a clear, direct style that brought village life and everyday characters vividly to the page. His fiction and theater work helped preserve a grounded picture of Portuguese society at the turn of the twentieth century.

2 Audiobooks

O Engeitado

O Engeitado

by Alberto Leal Barradas Monteiro Braga

Contos d'Aldeia

Contos d'Aldeia

by Alberto Leal Barradas Monteiro Braga

About the author

Born in Foz do Douro, Porto, in 1851, Alberto Braga was a Portuguese journalist and writer. He also served as secretary of the Instituto Comercial de Lisboa, and during his career he published literary chronicles in Portuguese and Brazilian newspapers.

As an author, he wrote both plays and short fiction. He is especially remembered for a plain, readable style and for stories rooted in ordinary life, including Contos d'Aldeia and O Engeitado.

Braga died in 1911. Though not widely known today, his work still offers a lively window into Portuguese literary culture and the social world of his time.