Luís de Sttau Monteiro

At the age of 10, he left to London, with his father, which was a portuguese ambasssador.

He comes back in 1943 at the time his father was fired by Salazar.

Sttau Monteiro got an advocate degree in Lisbon and only practiced his profession for a short amount of time.
He leaves again to London, becaming a Formula 2 racer.

He comes back to Portugal and be part on numerous publications, as Almanaque magazine or A mosca in Lisbon's Diary.

In 1961 he published the play Felizmente há Luar! (engl: Finally there is Moonlight!), being distinguished with the Theater's price. The play was censured and prohibited by the fascist regime.

Only in 1978, the above play was annouced in the Nacional Theater. 160 000 copies were sold.

Sttau Monteiro was arrested by the fascist police (PIDE) in 1967 after the publishment of the plays A Guerra Santa (engl: The Holy War) and A Estátua (engl: The Statue), satires against the fascist regime and the colonial war.

In 1971 he wrote the novel Agarra o Verão, Guida, Agarra o Verão (engl: Hold the Summer, Guida, Hold the Summer), which was adapted to tv through the soup opera Chuva de Areia (engl: Sand Rain) in 1982