Isabel Pires de Lima

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Maria Isabel da Silva Pires de Lima (born July 17, 1952 in Braga ) is a non-party Portuguese politician . For three years (2005–2008) she was the Ministry of Culture in the first cabinet of Sócrate , currently she still has a mandate as a member of the parliamentary group of the Socialist Party (PS) .

Life

Pires de Lima finished her studies in Romance Philology with the license ( licenciatura ) customary in Portugal and then received her doctorate in Portuguese literature, specializing in the works of Eça de Queiroz '. She later worked as a professor of Portuguese literature at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Porto .

As a recognized literary scholar, she was already represented in various committees. Among other things, she headed the Portuguese Writers' Union as President, was a member of the Finance Council of the International Lusitanist Association, a member of the Executive Commission of the Culture Council of the Eça de Queiroz Foundation and a member of the Science Commission of the Lusitânia Program. She also appeared as a Queiroz specialist at various specialist conferences, including the 1995 “Colóquio Internacional Eça de Queiroz - 150 anos do nascimento” (International Queiroz Colloquium on the occasion of his 150th birthday), the “Neorealismo / Neorealismos” (1996 ) and at the conference "Encontro de Literaturas Ibero-Americanas" 1998.

Since 1999 (VIII. Period) Pires de Lima has been a member of the Portuguese parliament, the Assembleia da República , and was also represented in the following two legislative periods (IX. And X.). After the parliamentary elections on February 20, 2005, Prime Minister-designate José Sócrates appointed Pires de Lima as the new Minister of Culture. She held this office until her resignation on January 30, 2008. The main reasons given for the resignation were public criticism of the government's austerity programs. The lawyer and previous head of the Fundação Berardo , José António de Melo Pinto Ribeiro , then took over the department.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Remodelação abrangeu ministérios da Saúde e da Cultura ( Memento of May 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , [Cabinet reshuffle includes the Ministry of Culture and Health], Público , January 29, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Pires de Lima, Isabel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lima, Maria Isabel da Silva Pires de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese politician and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Braga , Portugal