(1942-2014) He was a lawyer, Secretary of State in the 4th and 5th Provisional Governments, director of RTP1, administrator of INCM, Commissioner-General for the Discoveries Celebrations and Commissioner of Portugal for Expo'92 (Seville), director of the Gulbenkian and a Member of the European Parliament. He was president of the CCB Foundation. Poet, fiction writer, essayist and translator. His awards include the Pessoa Prize, the Grand Prize for Poetry and Romance from the APE, the Golden Crown from the Struga Poetry Festival, the Prix Max Jacob Étranger and the Premio Nazionale per la Traduzione. He translated Dante, Petrarch, Benn, Rilke, Walter Benjamin, Shakespeare, Heaney, Lorca, Villon, Ronsard, Racine, Corneille, Molière, Voltaire and Rostand.

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