The new minister of culture will be the ambassador Luis Filipe Castro Mendes, current representative of Portugal to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, it was announced on Sunday in the site of the Presidency. Castro Mendes is so chosen by António Costa to replace John Smith, after the controversy of slaps. PUBLIC tried to contact was also a poet and fiction writer and not possible, but the SIC Notícias ambassador said only that he had accepted “with great honor” the challenge that was offered to him and sent to after any ownership statements.
the inauguration will take place next Thursday, the 14th, after the travel of the President to Strasbourg on 12 and 13 – the departure of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to the European Parliament, which will intervene, was announced about three weeks.
Castro Mendes is the Council of Europe since 2012, after the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Paulo Portas, have carried out a renewal of its ambassadors. First, Luis Filipe Castro Mendes was the representative of Portugal to UNESCO. – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
The choice of ambassador takes place just two days after John Smith announced the resignation of office. Soares resigned after Wednesday have responded on Facebook to a chronicle of Augusto M. Seabra on PUBLIC. Seabra criticized the statement a “crony style, arrogance and rudeness,” diagnosing “an emergency situation” in the sector in the four months that Smith was with the folder. And then minister responded by threatening critical with “two slaps” and also including Vasco Pulido Valente in Post that posted on Facebook by also this have already criticized in the newspaper.
after Antonio Costa have reacted late on Thursday, noting that members of the government must be careful about what they say and apologizing for the minister acts Soares resigned on Friday, citing “profound solidarity with the government and the Prime Minister “, adding not accept” waive the right to expression of opinion and word. “
Shortly thereafter, Costa said accepting” of course “the request of Smith’s resignation, with promise to appoint a new Minister of Culture soon.
Luis Filipe Castro Mendes, born in 1950 in Idanha-a-Nova, is a poet ambassador who likes think this double status and its respectable history, full of big-name writers. His university education is right, but the environments in which it is integrated, even as a student, were literary.
He began publishing too early teen in the youth supplement of the Daily Lisbon , when has not lived in Lisbon (his father was a judge, which dictated to him a nomadic life in the province, this is the reason why was born in Idanha-a-Nova) and began to establish links with some people of a new generation (eg, Jorge Silva Melo), who were instrumental also in his political consciousness.
Your debut book was in 1983, with Wall , published in the national press, a collection of young poets, created by Vasco Graça Moura. the following year he published a work of fiction Dark Sands , which was succeeded by Six Elegies and Other Poems , which received the Award of the Association of Journalists and Men of Letters Port. Also published Isle of the Dead (1991). M as your full affirmation as a poet gave up ten years later, with a book called Winter Travel (1993). Followed The Game Make Verses (1994) Music Modes (1996) Other Songs (1998) Reunited Poetry (1985-1999) and Days Invented (2001).
at that time, I had already made the usual tour of the beginning of diplomatic career (not yet as ambassador) in Angola, Madrid and Paris . Back, had been the experiences aide Melo Antunes, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the President Ramalho Eanes.
In the mid-90s was placed as Consul General of Portugal in Rio de Janeiro. His first mission as ambassador was in Budapest and then in New Delhi. In this Indian experience lies one of his books of poetry, India Legends , 2011, that was awarded with the Award António Quadros, awarded by the Foundation with same name with India Legends , edited by Don Quixote.
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