1) Miguel Torga was a Portuguese writer born in 1907 who wrote extensively about rural life in northern Portugal.
2) He published his first works in the 1920s-1930s under the pseudonym Adolfo Rocha before adopting the pen name Miguel Torga.
3) Torga is renowned for his multi-volume autobiographical works like Diário and A Criação do Mundo which explore his life, the land, and the Portuguese experience.