Francisco Pereira de Moura
Economist | 1925–1998
A professor, political activist and opponent of the Estado Novo regime, he founded the Democratic Electoral Commission that gave rise to the MDP/CDE (Portuguese Democratic Movement). After being arrested for his political beliefs, he was dismissed from his teaching post and remained under the vigilance of the PIDE (the regime’s security agency). Following the revolution of 25 April 1974, he became a minister in the first, fourth and fifth provisional governments. In the Constituent Assembly elections of 1975, he won five parliamentary seats for his party. He eventually left politics and returned to university teaching. A prolific author in the field of Economics, he was made an Officer of the Order of Public Instruction and a Grand Officer of the Military Order of Sant’Iago da Espada.
Querubim Lapa
Visual artist | 1925–2016
A multidisciplinary artist, he worked in painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpting and tapestry-work, but was best known as one of the most renowned Portuguese ceramicists. His work is associated with Portuguese neo-realism and is represented in various museums including the National Museum of Modern Art, in Tokyo, and the Museu do Chiado in Portugal. His most famous public works are perhaps the panel for the the University of Lisbon’s General Administration Building, the external and internal cladding at Casa da Sorte, two panels at Pastelaria Mexicana and the tile work at Bela Vista metro station. He received the Military Order of Sant’Iago da Espada.
Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão
Historian | 1925–2020
A professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Lisbon, dean of the same university, and president of the Portuguese Academy of History, he had a successful career as a historian. Among his various works and hundreds of research papers, it is worth mentioning the monumental, 19-volume História de Portugal (History of Portugal) of which he was the sole author. His work extended to universities in Spain and France, as well as Brazil and other countries in Latin America. Awarded the Príncipe das Astúrias Prize, among many others, he also received the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Sant’Iago da Espada.
Isabel da Nóbrega
Writer | 1925–2021
A fiction writer, journalist and translator, she made her name with the novel Viver com os Outros (Living with Others), which blended social concerns with an attempt to aesthetically reinvent narrative fiction. She wrote novels, theatre plays, children’s books and thousands of articles for newspapers and magazines, as well as for radio and television. She translated Tolstoy, Erich Maria Remarque and Graham Greene, among others. She won the Camilo Castelo Branco Prize, the Children’s and Youth Literature Award, the SPA Career Achievement Award and the Femina Prize for Merit in Literature, as well as receiving the Order of Merit and the Order of Liberty.
Francisco Lyon de Castro
