New minister was born in 1950 and joined in 1975 in the diplomatic career, having passed successively by Luanda, Madrid, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest and New Delhi
Poet Portuguese novelist Luis Filipe Castro Mendes was born in 1950 in Idanha-a-Nova, distinguished by an extensive written work and a diplomatic career in posts such as Luanda, Paris or New Delhi.
He graduated in 1974 in Law from the University of Lisbon, the new Minister of Culture joined from 1975 in the diplomatic career, having passed successively by Luanda, Madrid, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest and New Delhi.
He was an advisor of Melo Antunes at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and later the president Ramalho Eanes in 1983.
in 2010, replaced Manuel Maria Carrilho at UNESCO and in 2012 took office at the Council of Europe.
from an early age, between 1965 and 1967, was with the Lisbon School Daily newspaper.
the work of Luis Filipe Castro Mendes characterized is to cultivate the classical forms and the musicality of the verses and is part of a postmodernist aesthetic.
it also reveals an enigmatic universe where pretense and sincerity, romantic and classic, the rule and the game lead him to one of his most expressive works “the game Do Verses” (1994).
in his book stela “Wall” (1983), discusses whether the relationship between the subject and reality the impossible appointment that falls poetry between the word and the silence or the relationship between the self and the other, in a last part consists of a series of messages addressed to recipients identified by name.
He is the author of “Secret Correspondence” (1995), a work based on the historical and fictional invention and the parody of exercise, bringing together a series of texts (monologues, letters, poems) assigned to literary figures such as Marquesa de Alorna, Francisco Manoel de Nascimento, Knight Oliveira, among others) at the hinge between classicism and pre-romanticism.
the work of Luis Filipe Castro Mendes also has the feature distinguishing the ability to renew writing experience them.
“Dark Sands” (1984), “Six Elegies and Other Poems” (1985), awarded the prize of the Association of Journalists and Men of Porto, “Isle of the Dead” (1991) and “Other Songs” ( 1998) are also examples of other works by this author.
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