Profile
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 cultural advisor to the Civil House of the President of the Republic and is a member of the Editorial Board of Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda (IN-CM). In 2020, he was Deputy Director and Interim Director of the Portuguese Cinematheque – Museum of Cinema.
As a columnist and critic, he has contributed to various publications, including the weekly Expresso and the daily newspapers Público and Diário de Notícias. He oversees the poetry collection of Tinta-da-China publishing house and is co-editor of the Portuguese edition of Granta magazine (since 2018).
Pedro Mexia has served on the juries of several literary prizes, including the Vasco Graça Moura Prize (IN-CM) and the D. Dinis Prize (Fundação Casa de Mateus). He has also been a juror for the Inês de Castro Foundation Literary Prize, the Camões Prize, the Oceanos Prize, and awards from the Portuguese Society of Authors and the Portuguese Writers’ Association.
He has published eight collections of chronicles, including Primeira Pessoa (2006), Nada de Melancolia (2008), As Vidas dos Outros (2010), O Mundo dos Vivos (2012), Cinemateca (2013), Library (2015), Lá Fora (2018, winner of the Grand Prize for Chronicle from the Portuguese Writers’ Association), and Imagens Imaginadas (2019).
His five volumes of diaries include Fora do Mundo (2004), Prova de Vida (2007), Estado Civil (2009), Lei Seca (2014), and Malparado (2017). He has also published seven books of poetry, such as Em Memória (2000), Eliot e Outras Observações (2003), and Menos por Menos (2011), later compiled in Poemas Escolhidos (2018). His work has been anthologised in Contratempo / Contretemps in Brazil (2016) and France (2018).
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).
