Luís Filipe Castro Mendes 
Author

Poemas

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IMITADO DE ALBERTO CAEIRO portugués

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NOSSA SENHORA DE ROCAMADOUR portugués

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POETA AOS SETENTA ANOS portugués

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A Ilha Dos Mortos portugués

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Gestos portugués

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Apenas Um Soneto portugués

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What Thou Lovest Well portugués

Natal… Na Província Neva portugués

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A Bela Adormecida portugués

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Soneto da Infidelidade portugués

A Misericórdia dos Mercados portugués

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Luís Filipe Castro Mendes 
Author

Foto © José Frade
* 21.11.1950, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal, Portugal
Vive en: Strasbourg, France, Francia

Portuguese poet and fictionist, a career diplomat, Luís Filipe Castro Mendes was born in 1950. In 1974, he graduated in Law from the University of Lisbon. He began his diplomatic career in 1977. He was consul general in Rio de Janeiro, Ambassador of Portugal in Budapest, New Delhi, UNESCO-Paris and to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. He was Portugal’s Minister of Culture between 2016 and 2018.

He published his first book (Errands) in 1983, followed by Dark Sands (1984), Six Elegies and Other Poems (1985), The Isle of the Dead (1991), The Game of Making Verses (1994), Winter Trip (1993), Secret Correspondence (1995), Music Modes (1996), Other Songs (1998), The Invented Days (2001), Legends of India (2011), The Mercy of Markets (2014) and Another Ulysses returns home (2016). In 2018 he published an anthology of Collected Poems.

 Foto © José Frade
He published his latest work in 2021: Voltar.

He has a collection of poems published in Brazil (Poemas Reunidos, 1999) and books translated to German (Fremde Nahe, 2018) and French (Légendes de l’Inde, 2020).

Publicaciones
  • Recados

    (Messages)

    Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 1983

  • Areias Escuras

    (Dark Sands), fiction

    Lisboa: ER-Heptágono, 1984

  • Seis Elegias e Outros Poemas

    (Six Elegies and Other Poems)

    Porto: Associação dos Jornalistas e Homens de Letras do Porto, 1985

  • Ilha dos Mortos

    (The Island of the Dead)

    Lisboa: Quetzal, 1991

  • Viagem de Inverno

    (Winter Journey)

    Lisboa: Quetzal, 1993

  • O Jogo de Fazer Versos

    (The Game of Making Verses)

    Lisboa: Quetzal, 1994

  • Correspondência Secreta

    (Secret Correspondence), fiction

    Lisboa: Quetzal, 1995

  • Modos de Música

    (Ways of Music)

    Lisboa: Quetzal, 1996

  • Outras Canções

    (Other Songs)

    Lisboa: Quetzal, 1998

  • Poesia Reunida (1985-1999)

    (Collected Poems, 1985-1999)

    Lisboa: Quetzal, 1999

  • Os Dias Inventados

    (The Invented Days)

    Lisboa: Gótica, 2011

  • Lendas da Índia

    (Legends of India)

    Lisboa: Dom Quixote, 2011

  • A Misericórdia dos Mercados

    (The Mercy of the Markets)

    Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2014

  • Outro Ulisses regressa a casa

    (Another Ulysses returns home)

    2016

  • Fremde Nähe

    translated to German

    2018

  • Poemas Reunidos

    (Collected Poems)

    2018

  • Légendes de l’Inde

    translated to French

    2020

  • Voltar

    2021

Premios
  • 1985 Prémio da Associação de Jornalistas e Homens de Letras do Porto

  • 2011 Prémio António Quadros, atribuído pela Fundação com o mesmo nome

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