Torcato Sepúlveda
Torcato Sepúlveda (February 27, 1951 – May 21, 2008) was a Portuguese newspaper journalist. His full name was Torcato de Sepúlveda Duarte Macedo. He was known for his book reviews and cultural journalism for several Portuguese newspapers. Sepúlveda was the first cultural editor of the "Público", well regarded national daily newspaper. Sepúlveda was born in 1951 in Braga, Portugal, to parents who were elementary school teachers. He received his degree in Romance philology from the University of Coimbra, where he participated in the students demonstrations against António de Oliveira Salazar. Once he returned to Portugal, Sepúlveda began working at  the copy desk of the "Expresso", weekly publication. He began writing weekly book reviews for the "Expresso", which he signed using a shortened version of his name, John Macedo. Sepúlveda also wrote under the pseudonyms of Buíça, Silva of Viseu and D. Luis da Cunha during his career. Sepúlveda left the "Expresso" for the "Público", a daily national newspaper published in Lisbon. He became the first editor of Público's society and cultural section of the newspaper. He also wrote later worked for the now defunct newspapers, "A Capital" and "O Independente". Sepúlveda later worked as a journalist for "NS , the Saturday magazine supplement for the Diário de Notícias" until his death in 2008. Torcato Sepúlveda died on May 21, 2008, at the age of 57 at the Hospital de Almada in Almada, Portugal, of an undisclosed illness. He had been hospitalized at the Hospital Garcia de Orta for the previous two days.