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Miguel Vicente Esteves Cardoso (born 25 July 1955) is a
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,
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, critic and
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. He is a well-known
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.


Early life

Cardoso was born in an upper middle class family in Lisbon. His father, Joaquim Carlos Esteves Cardoso (1920 – 4 July 1994), was
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and his mother (m. 1954), Hazel Diana Smith, was
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. He had a good education and the advantage of a bilingual and bicultural upbringing, helping him to develop an outsider's detachment from the culture of his birth country. In 1979, he graduated from
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in political studies and four years later, in 1983, he received his doctorate in Political Philosophy. While there he made contact with some of the new wave bands of
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including
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and New Order, and arranged for the recording of the
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album ''Amigos em Portugal'' as well as providing its cover art. He married for the first time on 21 January 1981 and shortly after became the father of twin girls, socialites Sara and Tristana Esteves Cardoso, born in Lisbon. One year later he returned to Portugal, where he worked as an assisting investigator for the Social Studies Institute on the
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. He later became a supporting teacher of political sociology for ISCTE and then returned to Manchester University to work on his post-doctorate in Political Philosophy oriented by Derek Parfit and
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.


Writing and music career

Esteves Cardoso began writing freelance reviews of popular music for newspapers, among them ''Se7e'', ''O Jornal'', ''JL - Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias'' and ''Música & Som''. Eventually, he co-founded (with Pedro Ayres Magalhães, Ricardo Camacho e Francisco Sande e Castro) Portugal's first independent record label called Fundação Atlântica, which would publish Portuguese bands such as Xutos e Pontapés,
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, and Sétima Legião. Esteves Cardoso was the author or co-author of many programs for the station
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including ''Tópico de Dança'' and ''Aqui Rádio Silêncio''. Esteves Cardoso soon began to appear on television, gaining notice for his intellectual look mixed with irreverent humor. One of his more notable and controversial appearances was on the
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channel talk-show '' A Noite da Má-Língua'' along with Manuel Serrão, Rui Zink,
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, Júlia Pinheiro and other guests. Esteves Cardoso began his career as a journalist when he started contributing a column to the weekly paper ''
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'', later collected and published in four volumes, all of which sold over 100,000 copies and are still in print. In 1988, with
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, he founded the very successful and innovative weekly paper '' O Independente'' but he left the board in 1991 to dedicate his time to the magazine ''K'', financed by
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, SOCI and later also by Carlos Barbosa. After the demise of ''K'', Esteves Cardoso returned to literature. His first novel ''O Amor é Fodido'' sold well, perhaps in part due to the obscene title ("Love is Fucked"). His second and third novels, ''A Vida Inteira'' and ''O Cemitério de Raparigas'', were well received and are still in print. In 1997 he married for the second time, to Maria João Pinheiro, a former
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and
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. He continued to write essays for ''O Independente'' (which published its last number in September 2006) and ''
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''. Between 1999 and 2002, he wrote in his
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named ''Pastilhas''. In January 2006 he returned to the weekly paper ''Expresso'' and in November 2006 published his most recent collection, ''A Minha Andorinha''. On 13 February 2009 he welcomed his first grandchild, António Cardoso Coutinho, born in Lisbon, a natural son of his daughter Tristana by Bruno Coutinho.


Bibliography


Collected reviews and columns

* ''Escrítica Pop'' (1982) * ''A Causa das Coisas'' (1986) * ''Os Meus Problemas'' (1988) * ''As Minhas Aventuras na República Portuguesa'' (1990) * '' Último Volume'' (1991) * ''Explicações de Português'' (2001) * ''A Minha Andorinha'' (2006) * ''Lorelei'' * ''O Musical''


Novels

* ''O Amor é Fodido'' (1994) * ''A Vida Inteira'' (1995) * ''Cemitério de Raparigas'' (1996) : These volumes collected his ''Expresso'' columns.


References


External links


Review of ''El amor es jodido''
in
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Miguel Esteves Cardoso in a Portuguese Genealogical site
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