The journalist and writer Altino do Tojal, author of "Os Putos"

The writer and journalist Altino do Tojal died Sunday night at the age of 78 in Brunhais, Póvoa de Lanhoso, in the Braga district, said to the source of the Lusa family today & ## He added that the funeral was on Wednesday. . According to the same source, the wake of the author of "The Putos" begins Wednesday at 23:00, and the funeral will be held on the same day, at 15:00, in the church of Sobradelo da Goma, Póvoa de [19459004AltinodoTojalwasbornonJuly261939inBragaBrazilinthecityofBragawhereheliveduntiltheageof27accordingtoseveralfriendsHehasworkedinseveralnewspapersincludingJornaldeNotíciasLisbonOSeculountilitsclosureandlaterinComérciodoPorto

He excelled in fiction writing and his work "The Putos" was adapted to theater, television and comics.
The first version of this book appeared again in 1964, with the title "Sardines and Moon". He also wrote "The Oracle of Never" (1979), "The New Putos" (1982), "The Dew of the East" (1981) and "Travel to See What Gives".

2011, the National Newspaper (INCM) took the titles of the author, such as "Ruins and People", "Games of Light and Other Natal" and anthologies such as "Consoada Night" , "Stories of Macao" and "Os Putos – Selected Tales". Encouraged in the 1960s, "Os Putos" was a project that Altino do Tojal kept for years with stories of street children, that the writer Urbano Tavares Rodrigues defined as " lonely children, deceived, disinherited "" The overwhelming machine of adults accommodated to brutality, pompous stupidity and intriguing betrayal, to Mr. King's habit. "

In an introduction to the most recent edition of the INCM, dated 2014, Altino do Tojal wrote: this book, I tell the story, for half a century, because I found myself sublimating difficulties survival and existential schisms that would otherwise have required greater stoicism than I am able to be tolerable. "

" Putos "hurt my conscience as cruelly as I experienced them, I also wanted them to tear out the imagination as magically as I dreamed them." that they are still read, I, from the seed of my goals, I sprouted a good tree. "