 In 1941, he established himself as an otolaryngologist physician in Coimbra.He married Belgian Lecturer Andrée Crabbé and had an only daughter, Clara Crabée da Rocha (b. Coimbra, 1955), Literature Lecturer and second wife in 1985 of Vasco Graça Moura.He was a member of the literary movement "Presença" for a short period before founding two cultural magazines in the 1930s.