Estrada de Santiago

Estrada de Santiago (meaning "Road to Santiago") is a 1922 work by Portuguese novelist Aquilino Ribeiro. It is a collection of shorter fiction pieces that followed his earlier works, Jardim das tormentas and Terras do demo. The work features a muleteer named Malhadinhas, who became a prototype of the rural Portuguese for many readers. Ribeiro's writing often drew from his formative years in Beira Alta, Portugal, and utilized regional terminology, which made his work less widely read but stylistically rich in its depiction of local life, language, and nature. Ribeiro was a prominent figure in Portuguese fiction until the rise of neorealist regionalism in 1930. He was also associated with the Presença group in the 1920s, a literary movement that contributed to Portuguese Modernism.12