After primary schooling, he was sent away at age thirteen for further education at the Ginásio Ipiranga in Salvador, the state capital of Bahia. There he began a lifelong friendship with another boy from Ilhéus, Jorge Amado, who also would write about the cacao region and become the most successful novelist of Brazil. In Salvador, Adonias completed his education at age nineteen and embarked on a journalism career. In Brazil newspaper work is often combined with literary writing, which he also began. Moving to the national capital, Rio de Janeiro, in 1936, the young writer soon began work as a reporter for the Rio dailies
Correio da Manhã and
O Jornal. In 1938 he began to write literary criticism for newspapers and literary magazines in both Rio and São Paulo and like many fledgling writers also worked as a translator of European literature, notably of novels by the German writer Jakob Wassermann. In 1942 Adonias received the bachelor of law degree from the Faculdade de Direito do Distrito Federal (Federal Law School) in Rio and two years later wed Rosita Galiano, a native of Rio.
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