

His first novel was Equador ( Equator), first edited in 2003 and which sold more than 370 thousand copies. In this last year, was also edited Anos Perdidos ( Lost Years), a colection of chronics dedicated to the govern of António Guterres. In 1998, the book called Sul ( South) came out and in 2001 the book called Não te Deixarei Morrrer, David Crockett ( I won't let you die, David Crockett). Ten years later he wrote a collection of political texts called Um Nómada no Oásis ( A Nomadic in the Oasis) and O Segredo do Rio ( The Secret of the River, a children story). The first one, Sahara, a República da Areia ( Sahara, the Sand Republic), was edited in 1985 and was part of a report.

He also released various books, and almost all of them are chronics. He entered TVI in 1999 where he hosted the programme Legítima Defesa ( Self Defense) and in 2000 he started to work as a fixed commentator at the Jornal Nacional ( Nacional Journal, in TVI). He left SIC and refused the invitation to be general director of RTP but, in 1999, he returned to the television. He worked at SIC, a private TV channel, where he hosted information programmes such as "Crossfire". At the same time, he also wrote chronics in other publications such as A Bola ( The Ball, a sport journal), Máxima ( Maximum, a female magazine) and in the online journal Diário Digital ( Digital Diary). He also published some chronics and wrote to the journal Público ( Public) from 1990 until 2002. In 1989, he was one of the creators of Grande Reportagem magazine ( Big Report) and he became director of it in 1990, place where he settled during ten years. He first appeared at television in 1978, by entering the Radiotelevisão Portuguesa channel ( Portuguese Radiotelevision). After taking the Law course, he carried advocacy during twelve years, but left it permanently to become a full time journalist.

His mother, Sophia de Mello Breyner, was a poetess and his father, Francisco de Sousa Tavares, a lawyer and a journalist. Miguel Sousa Tavares is a portuguese journalist and was born in Porto, on the 25th June 1952.
