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José Paulo Cavalcanti Filho is a lawyer in Recife. Consultant to the World Bank and UNESCO. President of CADE (equivalent in Portugal to the Competition Authority; in the United States, it would be the Federal Trade Commission), of EBN (equivalent in Portugal to RTP2) and of the Social Communication Council of the National Congress (embryo, in Brazil, of the US Federal Communication Commission). One of the 6 members of the National Truth Commission (much broader and with greater objectives than Portugal’s Black Book Commission). Minister of Justice. Chair 39 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

Among dozens of books, he wrote Fernando Pessoa, a quasi-autobiography. Jabuti Awards (first place, São Paulo), Bienal do Livro (first place, Brasília), AlgoMais Magazine (Recife), José Ermínio de Moraes – book of the year, according to the Brazilian Academy of Letters (with a salute from master José Pastore, Rio), Il Molinello (Italy), Dário de Castro Alves (with a salute from President Mário Soares, Portugal). In addition to Brazil, he has been published in Germany, Spain, France, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Russia, England and the United States.