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Albino Forjaz de Sampaio
1884–1949
Remembered for sharp, lively prose, this Portuguese writer moved easily between journalism, fiction, and literary history. He is especially associated with Palavras Cínicas, a major early success that stayed widely read for decades.
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Crónicas imorais
by Albino Forjaz de Sampaio
About the author
Born in Lisbon in 1884, Albino Forjaz de Sampaio built a varied career as a writer, journalist, and bibliographer. He began publishing young, and his work became known for its quick, incisive style and for its attention to the sounds and pressures of city life.
He wrote across several forms and also took on major literary projects, including directing the multi-volume História da Literatura Portuguesa Ilustrada. Sources describe Palavras Cínicas (1905) as his best-known book and one of the most commercially successful titles in twentieth-century Portugal.
Forjaz de Sampaio died in Lisbon in 1949. Today he is remembered not only for his own books, but also for his wider contribution to Portuguese literary culture as an editor, organizer, and man of letters.