Miguel Trigueiros

Journalist and poet. He graduated in Theology (Institute of Higher Catholic Culture of the Portuguese Catholic University) and had a long career at Emissora Nacional and Rádio Clube Português, as a program producer and director. He earned his doctorate from the Pontifical Urbaniana University (Vatican) with the thesis A Alternativa Dogmática para as Teologias da Praxe: Teoria da Acção pela Palavra. He was a co-founder of the literary movement Poesia Nova in Coimbra. He was director of the magazines Flama and Mais Alto and a contributor to Diário Popular and the magazines Ocidente and Revista Municipal de Lisboa. He served as press counselor at the Portuguese Embassy in Madrid (1960-1964), counselor at the Portuguese Embassy to the Holy See (1974-1979), and cultural counselor in Caracas (1979-1983). He received the Commander's Crosses of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (Spain), the Order of St. Gregory the Great (Vatican), and the Pro Merito Militensis of the Order of Malta. Member of the Academic Center for Christian Democracy and the Royal Reading Cabinet of Rio de Janeiro.