| Ruben de Carvalho | |
| Office: | Member of the Assembly of the Republic |
| Term Start: | 1995 |
| Term End: | 1999 |
| Constituency: | Setúbal |
| Office2: | Lisbon City Council member |
| Term Start2: | 2005 |
| Term End2: | 2013 |
| Office3: | Portuguese Communist Party Central Committee member |
| Term Start3: | 1997 |
| Term End3: | 2019 |
| Birth Name: | Ruben Luís Tristão de Carvalho e Silva |
| Birth Date: | 21 July 1944 |
| Birth Place: | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Death Place: | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Party: | Portuguese Communist Party |
Ruben Luís Tristão de Carvalho e Silva[1] (Lisbon, 21 July 1944 – Lisbon, 11 June 2019[2]) was a Portuguese politician, cultural organizer, historian, and journalist. He was a dissident during the Estado Novo dictatorship, a leader of the Portuguese Communist Party,[3] a member of the Assembly of the Republic,[1] a Lisbon municipal councillor and the creator of the largest political party event in Portugal, the Avante! Festival.[4]
As a journalist, Ruben de Carvalho was editor-in-chief of Vida mundial magazine during the 1960s and the weekly Avante! newspaper between April 1974 and 1995, and was an opinion writer for several newspapers, including Diário de Notícias.[5] [4]
In addition to his journalistic career and political activities, he was well-known as a music-lover, in particular of the Jazz, Blues — of which he was considered an expert[5] — and Fado genres, having written several books about the latter genre.[6] His books on Fado had an outsized importance for the understanding of this musical genre.[7]