Pedro Mexia is a columnist, poet, translator, literary critic, and political commentator. He holds a degree in Law from the Portuguese Catholic University and is a Guest Lecturer in the Postgraduate Course in Writing Arts at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of NOVA University of Lisbon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since 2016, he has served as a cultural advisor to the Civil House of the President of the Republic and is a member of the Editorial Board of Imprensa Nacional \u2013 Casa da Moeda (IN-CM). In 2020, he was Deputy Director and Interim Director of the Portuguese Cinematheque \u2013 Museum of Cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a columnist and critic, he has contributed to various publications, including the weekly Expresso<\/em> and the daily newspapers P\u00fablico<\/em> and Di\u00e1rio de Not\u00edcias<\/em>. He oversees the poetry collection of Tinta-da-China publishing house and is co-editor of the Portuguese edition of Granta<\/em> magazine (since 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pedro Mexia has served on the juries of several literary prizes, including the Vasco Gra\u00e7a Moura Prize (IN-CM) and the D. Dinis Prize (Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Casa de Mateus). He has also been a juror for the In\u00eas de Castro Foundation Literary Prize, the Cam\u00f5es Prize, the Oceanos Prize, and awards from the Portuguese Society of Authors and the Portuguese Writers’ Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He has published eight collections of chronicles, including Primeira Pessoa<\/em> (2006), Nada de Melancolia<\/em> (2008), As Vidas dos Outros<\/em> (2010), O Mundo dos Vivos<\/em> (2012), Cinemateca<\/em> (2013), Library<\/em> (2015), L\u00e1 Fora<\/em> (2018, winner of the Grand Prize for Chronicle from the Portuguese Writers\u2019 Association), and Imagens Imaginadas<\/em> (2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n His five volumes of diaries include Fora do Mundo<\/em> (2004), Prova de Vida<\/em> (2007), Estado Civil<\/em> (2009), Lei Seca<\/em> (2014), and Malparado<\/em> (2017). He has also published seven books of poetry, such as Em Mem\u00f3ria<\/em> (2000), Eliot e Outras Observa\u00e7\u00f5es<\/em> (2003), and Menos por Menos<\/em> (2011), later compiled in Poemas Escolhidos<\/em> (2018). His work has been anthologised in Contratempo \/ Contretemps<\/em> in Brazil (2016) and France (2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pedro Mexia was awarded the rank of Officer of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword (2015) and Commander of the Order of Merit (2022).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pedro Mexia is a columnist, poet, translator, literary critic, and political commentator. He holds a degree in Law from the Portuguese Catholic University and is a Guest Lecturer in the Postgraduate Course in Writing Arts at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of NOVA University of Lisbon. Since 2016, he has served as a […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":24345,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"date":["2023-05-30"],"email":"pedromexia@gmail.com","show_email":true,"interest":"Literatura; cinema; ideias","interest_en":"","hyperlink":"","footnotes":""},"ac_class":[118],"ac_bond":[121],"ac_section":[143],"class_list":["post-21089","ac_scholars","type-ac_scholars","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ac_class-classe-de-letras","ac_bond-correspondentes-nacionais","ac_section-1-a-seccao-literatura-e-estudos-literarios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars\/21089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ac_scholars"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars\/21089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23374,"href":"http:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars\/21089\/revisions\/23374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ac_class","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_class?post=21089"},{"taxonomy":"ac_bond","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_bond?post=21089"},{"taxonomy":"ac_section","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_section?post=21089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}