Rodrigo has been playing with words since late 90’s: from journalism to public affairs, from television to books, from a well-known blog to a museum.

Before "Pax English", Rodrigo has published two books. As a 23 years-old single man, he dared to publish “Será que as mulheres ainda acreditam em príncipes encantados?” (“Do Women Still Believe in Charming Princes?") a major success in Portugal which became part of the portuguese government National Reading Plan. Albeit a success, he left the relationship’s opinion-style writing to release the fictional book “O Vigarista: o homem do ano” ( “The swindler: the Man of the Year”), at the age of 25.

In an interview on this second book to TVI TV, Rodrigo said "I really admire people who are disciplined in writing. I was always unable to do it".

It took him almost 20 years to decide to publish again. Rodrigo wrote "Pax English" between 2017 and 2020 while travelling around the globe. Ironically, Rodrigo finished "Pax English" during the pandemics: "Lisbon, Portugal (April 2020). I write these lines during [the coronavirus] state of emergency. In fact, much of this book was edited while I was locked in my house without know very well what will change in the world after this. It came to my mind that I would have to rewrite part of the book in light of what is happening. I think and rethink. Maybe it's not necessary".

Is this trade book or a science book? "Not being linguists, we will hardly give this importance to languages. As a communication professional, commentator, journalist and former advertiser, I did not give language that importance either. We are narratively trained to think the world through well-delimited sciences: sociologists think sociology explains the world, economists think economics explains the world, biologists think biology explains the world - and so on. We are narratively conditioned to only give importance to our own field of study. As if the world is explainable by just one or two science fields. And so we continue condemned to the old saying that "we know more and more about less and less, condemned to know everything about nothing". We lack the essential: sciences do not explain the world. They watch you. Hence these lines have been written with no specific science. It took a few years to put this book on paper. And a lifetime to write." [Rodrigo Moita de Deus, "Pax English"].