which sold over 100,000 copies and are still in print. In 1988, with Paulo Portas, 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 Valentim de Carvalho, 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 model and weather presenter. He continued to write essays for O Independente (which published its last number in September 2006) and Diário de Notícias. Between 1999 and 2002, he wrote in his blog 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 Spanish Miguel Esteves Cardoso in a Portuguese Genealogical site 1955 births Living people People from Lisbon Portuguese literature Portuguese male writers Portuguese journalists Male journalists Portuguese translators Portuguese satirists Portuguese monarchists Alumni of the University of Manchester Portuguese people of English descent