Francisco José Viegas

Francisco José Pereira de Almeida Viegas (born March 14, 1962 in Pocinho ) is a Portuguese crime writer and journalist. He is also known as a literary critic and since 2011 as a politician.

Life

He was born in Pocinho , a small town in the Vila Nova de Foz Côa rural district , which is home to two UNESCO World Heritages (the oldest protected wine-growing region in the world, Alto Douro , and the archaeological excavations Parque Arqueológico do Vale do Côa ). At the age of six he moved to Chaves , where he attended school. At 15 he published his first book ( Era Verão e Depois , German: It was summer and then; 1978), self-published with the help of photocopies. At 17 he went to Lisbon , where he studied Portuguese at the New University of Lisbon ( Universidade Nova ). In 1982 his first book was published, the collection of poems Fascínio da Monotonia (Eng .: fascination of monotony). From 1983 to 1987 he was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Évora .

In 1987 he gave up teaching and devoted himself entirely to journalism and writing. His first detective novel, Regresso por um Rio (English: return across a river) was published that same year . He was inspired by an encounter with a commissioner in Lisbon who was voluntarily transferred to the Azores . The success of the book prompted Viegas to write more crime novels with the fictional characters of the island and mainland investigators Filipe Castanheira and Jaime Ramos.

Viegas co-founded the literary magazine Ler in 1987 , which is published by the Círculo de Leitores book club and which Viegas continues to run with a few interruptions. From 2000 he took over the management of the magazine Grande Reportagem (Eng .: Large Reportage), and in 2006 he became head of the Casa Fernando Pessoa , the municipal Fernando Pessoa Museum, for two years . He is also known in Portugal as a literary critic and commentator on social issues. He writes columns for the newspaper Jornal de Notícias and the Portuguese edition of the women's magazine Elle . In addition to appearing as a commentator on the TSF radio program , he was often active as an author and with appearances for the public television broadcaster RTP .

Since the parliamentary elections in Portugal in 2011 , he has been a member of the Portuguese parliament, the Assembleia da República . He was elected as an independent candidate from the list of the liberal-conservative ruling party PSD in the Bragança district. Since then, he has been State Secretary of the Secretaria de Estado da Cultura , the successor authority to the Portuguese Ministry of Culture , which was dissolved in 2011 , until he resigned in October 2012 for health reasons.

Works

Viegas is the author of a number of poetry , travelogues , and twelve detective novels , for which he also became internationally known, and some of which have been translated into German and French . A children's book ( Se eu fosse ... Nacionalidades , German: If I were ... nationalities; 2010) and a play ( O Segundo Marinheiro , German: The second seaman; 1988) were published. In the edition Luebbe some of his crime novels have been published in a German translation:

• Shadow of the deep. 2005, ISBN 3-7857-1569-2 .
• The green sea of ​​darkness. 2001, ISBN 3-7857-1523-4 .
• The last fado. 2003, ISBN 3-7857-1539-0 .

Web links

• Francisco José Viegas's blog
• Literature by and about Francisco José Viegas in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Francisco José Viegas in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Francisco José Viegas in the Infopédia , the online encyclopedia of the Porto Editora
• Francisco José Viegas in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.krimi-couch.de , accessed on July 20, 2013.
2. ↑ Viegas, Francisco José ( Memento from January 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) at X-Zine . Retrieved March 8, 2020.
3. ↑ entry in the Pathfinder , the online encyclopedia of Porto Editora , accessed on July 20, 2013.
4. ↑ Article from February 15, 2013  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Diário de Notícias newspaper , accessed July 20, 2013.  
5. ↑ Member of the Parliament's website , accessed on July 20, 2013.
6. ↑ Article of October 25, 2012 in the culture supplement Ípsilon of the daily newspaper Público , accessed on July 20, 2013.