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José Rentes de Carvalho
José Rentes de Carvalho (born 1930) is a portuguese writer. He was born in Vila Nova de Gaia, although his parents came from the Trás-os-Montes region. He took school at Alexandre Herculano high school in Porto and after at schools in Viana do Castelo and Vila Real. He then studied Law and Romance Languages at Lisbon University.

Due to political reasons he was forced to flee Portugal and spent part of his life in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, New York and Paris. He did work as a journalist for some newspapers: O Estado de São Paulo, o Correio Paulistano and O Globo, and the magazine, O Cruzeiro.

He moved to Amsterdam, in 1956, to work at the Brazilian embassy. Later he received his master's degree from the University of Amsterdam, having "The Common Man in the Works of Raul Brandão" as the title of his thesis.

He worked later as a lecture of Portuguese Literature at the same university until 1988. After retiring from university he kept a career as a journalist and novelist. His wrote wide range of Portuguese, Brazilian, Belgian, and Dutch newspapers and magazines.

In 1991 he was made a Commander of the Order of Prince Henry.