José Ramos Mendes

Poet. He studied at the Diocesan Seminary of Figueira da Foz and the Major Seminary in Coimbra. He was ordained a priest in 1960, a vocation he would later abandon to enter the teaching profession. A teacher at Escola Secundária de Arganil, the town where he resides, he is a contributor to the newspaper A Comarca de Arganil with the weekly column «Nota da Semana».