List of Brazilian writers
Encyclopedia
This is a list of Brazilian writers, those born in Brazil
or who have established citizenship or residency.
Brazil
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or who have established citizenship or residency.
Writers for Children
- Ana Maria MachadoAna Maria MachadoAna Maria Machado was born in 1941 in Rio de Janeiro and is, alongside Lygia Bojunga Nunes and Ruth Rocha, one of the most significant children's book authors in Brazil. She started her career as a painter in Rio de Janeiro and New York City. After studying Romance languages she did a PhD with...
(1941-) - Francisco MarinsFrancisco MarinsFrancisco Marins, is a Brazilian writer. He is the author of a series of books for children about the Taquara-Póca farm. Marins also writes historic novels set in the colonial Brazilian hinterland...
(1922-) - Lúcia Machado de AlmeidaLúcia Machado de AlmeidaLúcia Machado de Almeida was a Brazilian writer. She was born at a farm, in Santa Luzia city, state of Minas Gerais. She moved to Belo Horizonte, when she was a child. After that, she studied until High School at Santa Maria school, in the same city...
(1910–2005) - Júlio César de Mello e SouzaJúlio César de Mello e SouzaJúlio César de Mello e Souza , was a Brazilian writer and mathematics professor. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.He has been called by one biographer "the only...
(1895–1974), best known as Malba TahanMalba TahanMalba Tahan, full name Ali Yezzid Izz-Edin ibn-Salim Hanak Malba Tahan, was a fictitious Persian scholar. He was the creation and frequent pen name of Brazilian author Júlio César de Mello e Souza.-Biography:... - Maria Clara MachadoMaria Clara MachadoMaria Clara Machado was a Brazilian playwright, specialized on plays for children. She was born in 1921, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, and died in Rio de Janeiro in 2001, where she lived most of her life. Daughter of writer Aníbal Machado, she studied theater in Paris; in her return to Brazil,...
(1921–2001) - José Bento Monteiro LobatoMonteiro LobatoJosé Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato was one of Brazil's most influential writers, mostly for his children's books set in the fictional Sítio do Picapau Amarelo but he had been previously a prolific writer of fiction, a translator and an art critic...
(1882–1948) - Socorro AcioliSocorro AcioliSocorro Acioli is a Brazilian author, best known as the writer of Frei Tito and Rachel de Queiroz.-Bibliography:-Awards:* Melhor Obra Inédita de Literatura Infantil - Secretaria de Cultura do Estado do Ceará 2005...
(1975-) - Ziraldo Alves Pinto (1932-)
Chroniclers
- Carlos Drummond de AndradeCarlos Drummond de AndradeCarlos Drummond de Andrade was perhaps the most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th century. He has become something of a national poet; his poem "Canção Amiga" was printed on the 50 cruzados note...
(1902–1987) - Fernando SabinoFernando SabinoFernando Sabino was a Brazilian writer and journalist.Sabino was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, where he lived until he was twenty, when he moved to Rio de Janeiro....
(1923–2004) - João do RioJoão do RioJoão do Rio was the pseudonym of the Brazilian journalist, short-story writer and playwright João Paulo Emilio Cristóvão dos Santos Coelho Barreto, a Brazilian author and journalist of African descent...
(1881–1921) - João Ubaldo RibeiroJoão Ubaldo RibeiroJoão Ubaldo Ribeiro is a Brazilian author born in Itaparica, Bahia on January 23, 1941. In the English speaking world his An Invincible Memory has been highly praised...
(1941-) - José de Côrtes DuarteJosé de Côrtes DuarteJosé de Côrtes Duarte is a Brazilian author born in Garanhuns, Pernambuco on 1895. His books are mainly narratives about regional aspects of Minas Gerais, where he lived as farmer and vaquero. His books became a source of information about historic aspects of the region...
(1895-1982) - Luís Fernando VeríssimoLuis Fernando VerissimoLuís Fernando Veríssimo is a Brazilian writer.Verissimo is the son of Brazilian writer Erico Verissimo and lived with his father in the United States during his childhood....
(1936-) - Paulo Mendes CamposPaulo Mendes CamposPaulo Mendes Campos , was a Brazilian writer and journalist.Born in Minas Gerais, was the son of the physician and writer Mario Mendes Campos and D...
(1922–1991) - Pedro BlochPedro BlochPedro Bloch was a Brazilian writer. His family immigrated to Brazil at the beginning of the 20th century....
(1914–2004) - Rubem BragaRubem BragaRubem Braga was a notable Brazilian writer of short stories. He was born in Cachoeiro de Itapemirim city, state of Espírito Santo, on January 12, 1913....
(1913–1990)
Short Story Writers
- Aníbal MachadoAníbal MachadoAníbal Machado is a Brazilian writer born in Sabará, Minas Gerais. He was president of the Brazilian Association of Writers and received numerous awards for his novels. He was also honored by the Academia Brasileira de Letras. He is the father of playwright Maria Clara Machado.-External links:...
- Alcântara MachadoAlcântara MachadoAntônio Castilho de Alcântara Machado de Oliveira was a Brazilian journalist, politician and writer. He didn't take part of the Week of Modern Art in São Paulo, but even though wrote a great many modernist chronicles and short stories and also an unfinished novel.- Bibliography :* Terra Roxa*...
(1901–1935) - Dalton TrevisanDalton TrevisanDalton Jérson Trevisan is a Brazilian author of short stories. He has been described as an "acclaimed short-story chronicler of lower-class mores and popular dramas."...
(1925-) - João Simões Lopes NetoJoão Simões Lopes NetoJoão Simões Lopes Neto was a Brazilian regionalist writer of Rio Grande Do Sul born March 9, 1865. After some unsuccessful business ventures he married at 27. He only wrote four works of note, but nevertheless had a strong importance to Brazilian regionalist writing...
(1865–1916) - Murilo RubiãoMurilo RubiãoMurilo Rubião was a Brazilian writer. He was born in Carmo de Minas city, state of Minas Gerais.His entire work consists of short stories, all of them dealing with fantastic themes, which is uncommon among Brazilian writers...
(1916–1991) - Osman LinsOsman LinsOsman Lins was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer. He is considered to be one of the leading innovators of Brazilian literature in the mid 20th century...
(1924–1978) - Regina RhedaRegina RhedaRegina Rheda is a Brazilian author living in the United States. She is known for her prose fiction concerning urbanism, transnational migration, and animal rights. Before becoming a writer, she had worked with film, video and television...
(1957-)
Non-Fiction Writers
- Alessandra Silvestri-LevyAlessandra Silvestri-LevyAlessandra Silvestri-Levy is a Brazilian producer, art curator, and writer.Patroness for art, she has produced several exhibitions about photography, contemporary painting, literature, music, and film festivals, mainly in Paris, Rome, São Paulo, and Havana.She's the International Executive...
(1972-) - Antônio HouaissAntônio HouaissAntônio Houaiss was a Brazilian lexicographer, writer and translator, who served as the Minister of Culture.He was the son of Lebanese immigrants....
(1915–1999) dicionarist - Aurélio Buarque de Holanda FerreiraAurélio Buarque de Holanda FerreiraAurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira was a Brazilian lexicographer, philologist, translator, and writer, best known for editing the Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, a major dictionary of the Portuguese language....
(1910–1989) - José Maria da Silva Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco (1819–1880) historian
- Caio Prado JúniorCaio Prado JúniorCaio da Silva Prado Júnior was a Brazilian historian.His works inaugurated a Brazilian historiographic tradition identified with Marxism, but critical of Stalinist stageism and reductionism....
(1907–1990) historian - Luís da Câmara Cascudo (Câmara Cascudo) (1898–1986) folclorist
- Celso FurtadoCelso FurtadoCelso Monteiro Furtado was an important Brazilian economist and one of the most distinguished intellectuals of his country during the 20th century. His work focuses on development and underdevelopment and on the persistence of poverty in peripheral countries throughout the world...
(1920–2004) economist - Darcy RibeiroDarcy RibeiroDarcy Ribeiro was a Brazilian anthropologist, author and politician. Darcy Ribeiro's ideas of Latin American identity have influenced several later scholars of Latin American studies...
(1922–1997) anthropologist - Euclides da CunhaEuclides da CunhaEuclides da Cunha was a Brazilian writer, sociologist and engineer. His most important work is Os Sertões , a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the Brazilian government against the rebellious village of Canudos, known as the War of Canudos...
(1866–1909) sociologist - Flavio AlvesFlavio AlvesFlavio Alves is a Brazilian writer, screenwriter, and film director. He is best known for his book Toque de Silêncio , an autobiographical account of his life as a gay man in the Brazilian navy....
(1969-) memoirist - Florestan FernandesFlorestan FernandesFlorestan Fernandes was a Brazilian sociologist and politician. He was also elected federal deputy twice.- Life and career :...
(1920–1995) historian, sociologist - Gauss Moutinho CordeiroGauss Moutinho CordeiroGauss Moutinho Cordeiro is a Brazilian engineer, mathematician and statistician of international recognition who has madesignificant contributions to the theory of statistical inference,...
(1952-) mathematician - Gilberto FreyreGilberto FreyreGilberto de Mello Freyre was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter and congressman. His best-known work is a sociological treatise named Casa-Grande & Senzala...
(1900–1987) sociologist - Gustavo BarrosoGustavo BarrosoGustavo Dodt Barroso was a Brazilian writer and politician associated with Brazilian Integralism.- Biography :He was half German by birth, his mother coming from Württemberg....
(1888–1959) politician - Joaquim NabucoJoaquim NabucoJoaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo was a Brazilian writer, statesman, and a leading voice in the abolitionist movement of his country.-Biography:...
(1849—1910) memoirist, diplomat - José Guilherme MerquiorJosé Guilherme MerquiorJosé Guilherme Merquior was a Brazilian diplomat, academic, writer, literary critic and philosopher.-Biography:...
(1941–1991) philosopher, sociologist - José Lino GrünewaldJosé Lino GrünewaldJosé Lino Grünewald was a Brazilian intellectual who was born and died in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A multi-disciplinary intellectual, his writings included poetry, translation , and essays...
(1931–2000) - José Mariano da Conceição Veloso (1742–1811) botanist
- Josué de CastroJosué de CastroJosué de Castro, born Josué Apolônio de Castro , was a Brazilian physician, expert on nutrition, geographer, writer, public administrator, and activist against world hunger....
(1908–1973) sociologist - Julio Ximenes SeniorJulio Ximenes SeniorJúlio Ximenes Sênior was a Brazilian scientist and medical doctor, in the research field of biochemistry, microbiology, and was also a career Brazilian Army officer....
(1901–1975) physician - Leonardo BoffLeonardo BoffLeonardo Boff was born 14 December 1938 in Concórdia, Santa Catarina state, Brazil. He is a theologian, philosopher and writer, known for his active support for the rights of the poor and excluded....
(1938-) - theologian - Mário de AndradeMário de AndradeMário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism, he virtually created modern Brazilian poetry with the publication of his Paulicéia Desvairada in 1922...
(1893–1945) - Miguel RealeMiguel RealeMiguel Reale was a Brazilian jurist, philosopher, academic, politician and poet. Known as one of the most important jurists of Brazil....
(1910–2006) law theorist - Nelson de AraújoNelson de AraujoNélson Correia de Araújo was born in Capela, state of Sergipe, in Northeast Region, Brazil, on September 4, 1926, and died in Salvador, state of Bahia, on April 7, 1993...
(1926–1993) historian, folklorist - Oswald de AndradeOswald de AndradeJosé Oswald de Andrade Souza was a Brazilian poet and polemicist. He was born and spent most of his life in São Paulo....
(1890–1954) - Oswaldo CruzOswaldo CruzOswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, better known as Oswaldo Cruz |São Paulo]] state, Brazil – February 11, 1917, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro state) was a Brazilian physician, bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer and the founder of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute.He also occupied the 5th chair of...
(1872–1917) physician, epidemiologist - Paulo Alfeu Junqueira Duarte (1899–1984) archaeologist
- Paulo FreirePaulo FreirePaulo Reglus Neves Freire was a Brazilian educator and influential theorist of critical pedagogy.-Biography:...
(1921–1997) - educator - Plínio SalgadoPlínio SalgadoPlínio Salgado was a Brazilian politician, writer, journalist, and theologian. He founded and led the Brazilian Integralist Action, a far-right political party inspired on the Italian Fascist movement....
(1901–1975) politician - Raymundo FaoroRaymundo FaoroRaymundo Faoro was a lawyer, jurist, sociologist, historian, writer and president of the Brazilian Bar Association, which in Portuguese is known as OAB . Even though lawyers have an expressive presence in the political scenery of Brazil, not one President after Faoro gained the same intellectual...
(1925–2003) sociologist - Rinaldo de LamareRinaldo de LamareRinaldo de Lamare was a Brazilian physician specialized in pediatrics and a bestseller writer of books on child health and care for the general public...
(1910–2002) physician - Roberto da Matta (1936-) anthropologist
- Roger BastideRoger BastideRoger Bastide was a French sociologist and anthropologist, specialist in sociology and Brazilian literature.The character Agliè in Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum bears resemblance to Roger Bastide....
(1898–1974) sociologist - Rubem AlvesRubem AlvesRubem Azevedo Alves, is a Brazilian theologian, philosopher, educator, writer, and psychoanalyst.Alves was born in Boa Esperança, Minas Gerais...
(1933-) - Ruy BarbosaRuy BarbosaRuy Barbosa de Oliveira was a Brazilian writer, jurist, and politician.Born in Salvador da Bahia, he was a federal representative, senator, Minister of Finance and diplomat. For his distinguished participation in the Hague Peace Conference of 1907, he earned the nickname "Eagle of the Hague"...
(1849–1923) - Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (1902–1982) historian
- Tristão de AthaydeAlceu Amoroso LimaAlceu Amoroso Lima was a writer, journalist and activist from Brazil. He adopted the pseudonym Tristão de Ataíde in 1919 and wrote under that name. In 1928 he converted to Catholicism and eventually became head of Catholic Action in Brazil...
(Alceu Amoroso Lima) (1893–1983) - Viscount of Taunay (1843–1899) historian
Playwrights
- Antônio José da SilvaAntónio José da SilvaAntónio José da Silva was a Portuguese-Brazilian dramatist, known as "the Jew" . The Brazilian spelling of his first name is Antônio.-Life:...
- O Judeu (The Jew) (1705–1793) - Ariano SuassunaAriano SuassunaAriano Suassuna is a Brazilian playwright and author.He is in the "Movemento Amorial". He founded the Student Theater at Federal University of Pernambuco....
(1927-) - Artur Azevedo (1855–1908)
- Augusto BoalAugusto BoalAugusto Boal was a Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical popular education movements...
(1931–2009) - Dias GomesDias GomesAlfredo de Freitas Dias Gomes was an important Brazilian playwright.He was born on October 19, 1922 in Salvador, Bahia and died in a car accident in São Paulo, in 1999. He started writing plays at age 15 and later wrote soap operas. He wrote the first ever colored soap opera in Brazilian...
(1923–1999) - Gianfrancesco GuarnieriGianfrancesco GuarnieriGianfrancesco Sigfrido Benedetto Marinenghi de Guarnieri was a Brazilian actor and playwright.- External links :...
(1934–2006) - Leilah Assumpção (1943-)
- Luís Caetano Pereira Guimarães JúniorLuís Caetano Pereira Guimarães JúniorLuís Caetano Pereira Guimarães Júnior was a Brazilian diplomat, poet, novelist and dramaturgist....
(1845–1898) - Luiz Duarte (1956-)
- Manuel de Araújo Porto-AlegreManuel de Araújo Porto-alegreManuel José de Araújo Porto-alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo was a Brazilian Romantic writer, painter, architect, diplomat and professor. He is patron of the 32nd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.-Life:...
(1777–1838) - Maria Clara MachadoMaria Clara MachadoMaria Clara Machado was a Brazilian playwright, specialized on plays for children. She was born in 1921, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, and died in Rio de Janeiro in 2001, where she lived most of her life. Daughter of writer Aníbal Machado, she studied theater in Paris; in her return to Brazil,...
(1921–2001) - Luís Carlos Martins PenaMartins PenaLuís Carlos Martins Pena was a Brazilian playwright, famous for introducing to Brazil the "comedy of customs", winning the epithet of "the Brazilian Molière"....
(1815–1848) - Nelson RodriguesNélson RodriguesNelson Falcão Rodrigues was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Vestido de Noiva , considered revolutionary for the complex exploration of its characters' psychology and its use of colloquial dialog...
(1912–1980) - Oswald de AndradeOswald de AndradeJosé Oswald de Andrade Souza was a Brazilian poet and polemicist. He was born and spent most of his life in São Paulo....
(1890–1954) - Pedro BlochPedro BlochPedro Bloch was a Brazilian writer. His family immigrated to Brazil at the beginning of the 20th century....
(1914–2004) - Qorpo Santo (Joaquim de Campos Leão) (1829–1883)
- VianinhaOduvaldo Vianna FilhoOduvaldo Vianna Filho, known as Vianinha was a Brazilian playwright.Vianinha started in theater as an actor, in 1955, with the Teatro Paulista do Estudante group...
(1936–1974)
Journalists
- Alberto DinesAlberto DinesAlberto Dines is a Brazilian journalist and writer. With a career spanning over five decades, Dines directed and launched several magazines and newspapers in Brazil and Portugal...
(1932) - Tristão de AthaydeAlceu Amoroso LimaAlceu Amoroso Lima was a writer, journalist and activist from Brazil. He adopted the pseudonym Tristão de Ataíde in 1919 and wrote under that name. In 1928 he converted to Catholicism and eventually became head of Catholic Action in Brazil...
(1893–1983) - Carlos Heitor ConyCarlos Heitor ConyCarlos Heitor Cony is a journalist and author was born in Rio de Janeiro on March 14, 1926. He is classed as center-left and faced persecution under the military government in the 1960s. He is one of Brazil's leading journalists and novelists with ten of his works being filmed. He is a columnist at...
(1926-) - Carlos LacerdaCarlos LacerdaCarlos Frederico Werneck de Lacerda was a Brazilian journalist and politician.Born in Rio de Janeiro, Lacerda was the son of a family of politicians from Vassouras, Rio de Janeiro State....
(1914–1977) journalist - Elio GaspariElio GaspariElio Gaspari is a Brazilian journalist and writer resident in São Paulo, Brazil. He came to Brazil while still an infant, and began his career in journalism not long thereafter...
(1944) - Elsie LessaElsie LessaElsie Lessa was a Brazilian journalist and writer of American descent.She was hired as a reporter for the newspaper O Globo in 1946. From 1952 till her death in May 2000, she wrote continuously for the paper...
(1912–2000) - Gilberto DimensteinGilberto DimensteinGilberto Dimenstein is a Brazilian journalist. He is currently a columnist at the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, of which he is also a member of the editorial counsil. He also keeps a column at CBN radio....
(1956) - Ivan LessaIvan LessaIvan Pinheiro Themudo Lessa is a Brazilian journalist and writer of American descent. Born in São Paulo, he is the son of the journalist and writer Elsie Lessa and the writer Orígenes Lessa and the father of the British writer Juliana Foster....
(1935-) - José do PatrocínioJosé do PatrocínioJosé Carlos do Patrocínio was a Brazilian writer, journalist, activist, orator and pharmacist. He founded and occupied the 21st chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1905.-Life:...
- Mario Sergio ContiMario Sergio ContiMario Sergio Conti is a Brazilian journalist. He was the editor of the newspaper Veja and of Jornal do Brasil.-External links:*...
- Mino CartaMino CartaMino Carta, pseudonym of Demetrio Giuliano Gianni Carta is an Italian-born Brazilian journalist, publisher and writer...
(1933-1934-) - Paulo FrancisPaulo FrancisPaulo Francis , was a Brazilian journalist, political pundit, novelist and critic....
(1930–1967) - Quintino BocaiúvaQuintino BocaiúvaQuintino Bocaiúva was a politician and writer from Brazil.-References:...
- Samuel WainerSamuel WainerSamuel Wainer was a Brazilian journalist and author. Born to a Jewish family of Bessarabia, he soon moved to Brazil and settled in the São Paulo district of Bom Retiro. He founded and directed the Diretrizes magazine and the Última Hora newspaper...
(1912–1980) - Sergio Buarque de HollandaSergio Buarque de HollandaSérgio Buarque de Holanda was an important Brazilian writer, journalist, historian and member of the .In 1921, he moved with his family to Rio de Janeiro...
(1902–1982) - Sebastião NerySebastião NerySebastião Nery is a brazilian writer and journalist. He was born at the state of Bahia, on March 8, 1932.-References:http://www.sebastiaonery.com.br/biografia/...
- Zuenir VenturaZuenir VenturaZuenir Carlos Ventura is a Brazilian journalist and writer. He is a columnist for the newspaper O Globo, and for Época magazine. He won the Jabuti Prize in 1995 in the "reportage" category for the book Cidade Partida. In 2009, his book 1968 - O que Fizemos de Nós won the third place at the same...
Poets
- Adalgisa NeryAdalgisa NeryAdalgisa Nery was a Brazilian poet, journalist and politician. She was born in Rio de Janeiro as Adalgisa Maria Feliciana Noel Cancela Ferreira, the daughter of a civil servant...
(1905–1980) - Adélia PradoAdélia PradoAdélia Luzia Prado Freitas , is a Brazilian writer and poet.She was born in Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, and started writing at the age of 40 which is relatively late in life for a poet...
(1935-) poet, chronicler - Affonso Romano de Sant'AnnaAffonso Romano de Sant'AnnaAffonso Romano de Sant'Anna , is a Brazilian writer.-Background:He was a professor of Brazilian Literature at UCLA and the University of Texas at El Paso, and a writer for the O Globo newspaper. In 1971 he married Marina Colasanti, a Brazilian journalist and writer...
(1937-) - Alberto de OliveiraAlberto de OliveiraAntônio Mariano de Oliveira was a Brazilian poet, pharmacist and professor, more well-known by his pen name Alberto de Oliveira...
(1859–1937) - Alphonsus de GuimaraensAlphonsus de GuimaraensAfonso Henrique da Costa Guimarães, known as Alphonsus de Guimaraens, was a Brazilian poet....
(1870–1921) - Alvarenga PeixotoAlvarenga PeixotoInácio José de Alvarenga Peixoto was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet and a lawyer. He wrote under the pen name Eureste Fenício.-Biography:Peixoto was born in Rio de Janeiro, to Simão Alvarenga Braga and Maria Braga...
(1744–1792) - Álvares de AzevedoÁlvares de AzevedoManuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo was a Brazilian Romantic poet, short story writer, playwright and essayist...
(1831–1852) - Amália Figueiroa (1845-1878)
- Américo Elísio (José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva) (1763–1838)
- Ana Cristina CésarAna Cristina CésarAna Cristina César was a poet and translator from Rio de Janeiro. She came from a middle-class Protestant background and was usually known as "Ana C." She had written since childhood and developed a strong interest in English literature. She spent some time in England in 1968 and, on returning to...
(1952–1983) - António Pereira de Sousa Caldas (1762–1814)
- Arnaldo AntunesArnaldo AntunesArnaldo Antunes , is a writer and composer from Brazil. He began as a member of the band Aguilar e Banda Performática in the late 1970s. For most of the 1980s he was a member of the rock band Titãs. After 1992 he had six solo albums. Since 1992 he has been an award winning poet, but he was first...
(1960-) - Augusto de CamposAugusto de CamposAugusto de Campos is a Brazilian writer who was a founder of the Concrete poetry movement in Brazil. He is also a translator, music critic and visual artist....
(1931-) - Augusto de LimaAugusto de LimaAntônio Augusto de Lima was a Brazilian journalist, poet, musician, magistrate, jurist, professor and politician. He was born in Congonhas de Sabará ....
(1859–1934) - Augusto dos AnjosAugusto dos AnjosAugusto de Carvalho Rodrigues dos Anjos was a Brazilian poet and professor. His poems speak mostly of sickness and death, and are considered to forerun the Modernism in Brazil....
(1884–1914) - Bruno TolentinoBruno TolentinoBruno Lúcio de Carvalho Tolentino was a Brazilian poet and intellectual, known for his militant opposition towards Brazilian modernism, his advocacy of traditional forms and subjects in poetry, his loathing of popular culture and concrete poetry, his self-parading as a "member of the Brazilian...
(1940–2007) - Basílio da GamaBasílio da GamaJosé Basílio da Gama was a Brazilian-born Portuguese poet and member of the Society of Jesus, famous for the epic poem O Uraguai...
(1741–1795) - Domingos Caldas Barbosa (1740–1800)
- Carlos Drummond de AndradeCarlos Drummond de AndradeCarlos Drummond de Andrade was perhaps the most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th century. He has become something of a national poet; his poem "Canção Amiga" was printed on the 50 cruzados note...
(1902–1987) - CarpinejarFabrício Carpi Nejar- Bibliography :* As Solas do Sol, 1998* Um Terno de Pássaros ao Sul, 2000* Terceira Sede, 2001* Biografia de uma árvore, 2002* Caixa de Sapatos, 2003* Cinco Marias, 2004* Como no Céu e Livro de Visitas, 2005* O amor esquece de começar, 2006...
(1972-) - Casimiro de AbreuCasimiro de AbreuCasimiro José Marques de Abreu was a Brazilian poet, novelist and playwright, adept of the "Ultra-Romanticism" movement...
(1839–1860) - Cassiano RicardoCassiano RicardoCassiano Ricardo was a Brazilian journalist, literary critic, and poet.An exponent of the nationalistic tendencies of Brazilian modernism, he was associated with the Green-Yellow and Anta groups of the movement before launching the Flag group, a social-democratic reaction to these groups...
(1895–1974) - Castro AlvesCastro AlvesAntônio Frederico de Castro Alves was a Brazilian poet and playwright, famous for his Abolitionist and Republican poems...
(1847–1862) - Cecília MeirelesCecília MeirelesCecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the Portuguese language, and is widely considered the best poetess from Brazil, though she combatted the word...
(1901–1964) - Cláudio Manuel da CostaCláudio Manuel da CostaCláudio Manuel da Costa was a Brazilian poet and musician, considered to be the introducer of the Neoclassicism in Brazil...
(1729–1789) - ColombinaYde Schoenbach BlumenscheinYde Schoenbach, later Blumenschein by marriage, was a Brazilian poet best known as Colombina....
(1882–1963) - Cora CoralinaCora CoralinaCora Coralina was a Brazilian writer and poetess. She was born August 20, 1889, and died in the city of Goiânia on April 10, 1985. She published her first book after her husband died in 1965...
(1889–1985) - Cruz e Souza (1861–1898)
- Dante MilanoDante MilanoDante Milano was a Brazilian poet associated with modernism.-Life and works:He was born in Rio de Janeiro to Italian immigrants. He had his first poem published in 1920 when he was working as an accountant. He had successes in poetry after that and in 1935 organized an anthology of modernist...
(1899–1991) - Décio PignatariDécio PignatariDécio Pignatari is a Brazilian poet, essayist and translator.Since the 1950s, conducting experiments with poetic language, incorporating visuals elements and the fragmentation of words...
(1927-) - Ferreira GullarFerreira GullarFerreira Gullar is the pen name for José Ribamar Ferreira , Brazilian poet, playwright, essayist, art critic, and television writer...
(1930-) - Frederico BarbosaFrederico BarbosaFrederico Barbosa is a Brazilian poet.-Places of residence:Barbosa moved with his family to São Paulo, where he currently lives, when he was six...
- Gilberto Mendonça TelesGilberto Mendonça TelesGilberto Mendonça Teles is a Brazilian writer. He was born in Bela Vista de Goiás, state of Goiás, in 1931.- Bibliography :* Alvorada, poetry, 1955* Estrela-d'Alva, poetry, 1956* Planície, poetry, 1958* Fábula de Fogo, poetry, 1961...
(1931-) - Gonçalves CrespoGonçalves CrespoAntónio Cândido Gonçalves Crespo was a Brazilian-born Portuguese poet. Born to a slave mother on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro on March 11, 1846, he came to Portugal at the age of ten. He was educated at the University of Coimbra, but "devoted himself almost exclusively to the Muses at Lisbon."...
(1846–1883) Portuguese poet - Domingos Gonçalves de MagalhãesGonçalves de MagalhãesDomingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães, Viscount of Araguaia was a Brazilian poet, playwright, medician and diplomat...
(1811–1822) - Gonçalves Dias (1823–1864)
- Gregório de Matos Guerra (1636–1695)
- Gustavo DouradoGustavo DouradoGustavo Dourado is a Brazilian teacher, writer and poet. Counselor of the Writers' Union of PD and author of 13 books....
(1960-) - Haroldo de CamposHaroldo de CamposHaroldo de Campos was a Brazilian poet, critic, and translator. He did his secondary education at the College of St. Benedict, where he learned the first foreign language, like Latin, English, Spanish and French...
(1929–2003) - Henriqueta LisboaHenriqueta LisboaHenriqueta Lisboa was a Brazilian writer. She was awarded the Prêmio Machado de Assis for her lifetime achievement by the Brazilian Academy of Letters. She is famous for her wellchosen words to create powerful poems. Her early lyrics deal with traditional poetic themes, while her later poems like...
(1901–1985) - Hilda HilstHilda HilstHilda de Almeida Prado Hilst, more widely known as Hilda Hilst was a Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist, whose fiction and poetry were generally based upon delicate intimacy and often insanity and supernatural events. Particularly her late works belong to the tradition of magic realism.-Early...
(1930–2004) - João Cabral de Melo NetoJoão Cabral de Melo NetoJoão Cabral de Melo Neto was born in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, and is considered one of the greatest Brazilian poets of all time.He is often quoted saying "I try not to perfume the flower"...
(1920–1999) - Jorge de LimaJorge de LimaJon Mateus de Lima, was a politician, poet, and writer of Alagoas.His most famous works are the novels "A Mulher Obscura" and "Calunga"; and "A Túnica Inconsútil" and "A Invenção de Orfeu"...
(1895–1953) - Manoel de BarrosManoel de BarrosManoel Wenceslau Leite de Barros is a Brazilian poet. He has won many awards for his work, including twice the Prêmio Jabuti , the most important literary award in Brazil...
(1916-) - Manuel BandeiraManuel BandeiraManuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho was a poet, literary critic, and translator.Bandeira wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose. In 1904, he found out that he suffered from tuberculosis, which encouraged him to move from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, because of Rio's tropical beach weather...
(1886–1968) - Manuel de Araújo Porto-AlegreManuel de Araújo Porto-alegreManuel José de Araújo Porto-alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo was a Brazilian Romantic writer, painter, architect, diplomat and professor. He is patron of the 32nd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.-Life:...
(1777–1838) - Marcia TheophiloMarcia TheophiloMarcia Theophilo is a Brazilian poet. She studied in Rio de Janeiro, San Paulo and Rome, where she graduated in anthropology. She has lived and worked in Rome since 1971. She's a bilingual poet; her books can be found in Portuguese, Italian and English.Marcia Theophilo has published short stories,...
(1941-) - Mário de AndradeMário de AndradeMário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism, he virtually created modern Brazilian poetry with the publication of his Paulicéia Desvairada in 1922...
(1893–1945) - Mario QuintanaMario QuintanaMario de Miranda Quintana , was a Brazilian writer and translator. He became known as the poet of "simple things", and his style is marked by irony, profundity and technical perfection. The main themes of his poetry include death, the lost childhood and time...
(1906–1994) - Menotti Del PicchiaMenotti Del PicchiaPaulo Menotti Del Picchia was a Brazilian poet, journalist, and painter. He is associated with the Generation of 1922, the first generation of Brazilian modernists....
(1892–1988) - Murilo MendesMurilo MendesMurilo Mendes was an exponent of Modernist poetry in Brazil. He lived in Europe twice and died in Lisbon. His greatest connection in Europe though was to Rome...
(1901–1975) - Olavo BilacOlavo BilacOlavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator. Alongside Alberto de Oliveira and Raimundo Correia, he was a member of the "Parnassian Triad"...
(1865–1918) - Osório Duque-EstradaOsório Duque-EstradaJoaquim Osório Duque-Estrada was a Brazilian poet, essayist, journalist, literary critic and professor. He is famous for writing in 1909 a poem that would become the Brazilian National Anthem in 1922....
(1870–1927) - Oswald de AndradeOswald de AndradeJosé Oswald de Andrade Souza was a Brazilian poet and polemicist. He was born and spent most of his life in São Paulo....
(1890–1954) - Paulo LeminskiPaulo LeminskiPaulo Leminski Filho was a Brazilian poet and writer. He took pride in being of mixed Polish and African descent....
- Raul BoppRaul BoppRaul Bopp was a Brazilian poet and diplomat. He did diplomatic work in Japan and was a friend of Oswald de Andrade. Hence his Cobra Norato is an example of work based in the Manifesto Antropófago. In 1977 he won the Prêmio Machado de Assis.- References :...
(1898–1984) - Ronald de CarvalhoRonald de CarvalhoRonald de Carvalho was a Brazilian poet and diplomat from Rio de Janeiro. A street in Rio is named for him.- Works :* Luz Gloriosa * Pequena História da Literatura Brasileira...
(1893–1935) - Santa Rita DurãoSanta Rita DurãoJosé de Santa Rita Durão was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet, orator and Augustinian friar. He is considered a forerunner of the "Indianism" in the literature of Brazil, with his epic poem Caramuru....
(1722–1784) - Silva Alvarenga (1749–1814)
- Tomás Antônio GonzagaTomás Antônio GonzagaTomás Antônio Gonzaga was a Portuguese poet. One of the most famous Neoclassic Brazilian writers, he was also the ouvidor and the ombudsman of the city of Ouro Preto , as well as the desembargador of the appeal court in Bahia...
(1744–1819) - Torquato NetoTorquato NetoTorquato Pereira de Araújo Neto was a Brazilian journalist and poet. He is perhaps best known as a lyricist for the Tropicalismo counterculture movement, which later expanded its influence to Música Popular Brasileira. He worked with Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, Edu Lobo, and Waly Salomão...
(1944–1972) - Vinícius de Morais (1913–1980)
- Waly SalomãoWaly SalomãoWaly Dias Salomão was a Brazilian poet. He was born in Jequié, Bahia. He acted on several areas of Brazilian culture as poet, songwriter and writer. His first book was “Me segura qu’eu vou dar um troço” in 1972. His last book “Pescados Vivos” was published after his death in 2004...
Novelists
- A. C. FriedenA. C. FriedenA.C. Frieden, born André Frieden is a Swiss-Brazilian author and attorney living in Chicago, Illinois.- Biography :Frieden, the son of a Swissair executive, spent most of his youth abroad...
(1966-) - Adolfo CaminhaAdolfo CaminhaAdolfo Ferreira Caminha was a Brazilian Naturalist novelist, famous for his polemical novel Bom-Crioulo, which deals with homosexuality.-Life:...
(1867–1897) - Adonias FilhoAdonias FilhoAdonias Aguiar Filho is a writer and novelist from Bahia, Brazil. Member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.-Life:Filho was born in Itajuípe, Brazil, the son of Adonias Aguiar and Rachel Bastos de Aguiar....
(1915–1990) - Aluísio de Azevedo (1857–1913)
- Ana MirandaAna MirandaAna Miranda is a Brazilian poet and novelist born in Fortaleza, Ceará in 1951. She grew up in Brasilia and has lived in Rio de Janeiro since 1969. Her main work of note has been historical, including her award-winning 1989 novel A Boca do Inferno, which was published in English in 1991...
(1951-) - Antônio CalladoAntônio CalladoAntônio Callado was a Brazilian journalist, playwright, and novelist. Born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Callado studied law, then worked as a journalist in London for the BBC's Brazilian Service from 1941 to 1947. Callado began writing fiction in the 1950s...
(1917-) - Ariano SuassunaAriano SuassunaAriano Suassuna is a Brazilian playwright and author.He is in the "Movemento Amorial". He founded the Student Theater at Federal University of Pernambuco....
- Autran DouradoAutran DouradoWaldomiro Freitas Autran Dourado is a contemporary Brazilian novelist. He was born in the state of Minas Gerais. Going against current trends in Brazilian literature, Dourado's works display much concern with literary form, with many obscure words and expressions...
(1926-) - Bernardo CarvalhoBernardo CarvalhoBernardo Carvalho is a Brazilian author and journalist. He was the editor of “Folhetim,” a collection of essays, and is a Paris and New York correspondent for Folha de São Paulo. His first two novels were edited in France....
(1960-) - Bernardo GuimarãesBernardo GuimarãesBernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães was a Brazilian poet and novelist. He is the author of the famous romances A Escrava Isaura and O Seminarista. He also introduced to the Brazilian poetry the "verso bestialógico" , poems whose verses are very nonsensical, although very metrical...
(Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães) (1825–1884) - Caio Fernando AbreuCaio Fernando Abreu“Caio Fernando Loureiro de Abreu” , best known as “Caio Fernando Abreu” is one of the most influential and original Brazilian writers of the 70’s and 80’s generation...
(1948–1996) novelist, short stories - Chico Buarque (1944-)
- Clarice LispectorClarice LispectorClarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist...
(1925–1977) - Cristovam BuarqueCristovam BuarqueCristovam Ricardo Cavalcanti Buarque is a Brazilian politician and university professor, member of Democratic Labour Party . He is married and has two children.-Biography:Buarque graduated in mechanical engineering from the Federal University of Pernambuco...
- Cyro dos AnjosCyro dos AnjosCyro Versiani dos Anjos, journalist, and writer, was born in Montes Claros, state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, on October 5, 1906. In 1923, he went to Belo Horizonte, where he studied law at Federal University of Minas Gerais and graduated in 1932...
(1906–1994) - Érico VeríssimoErico VerissimoErico Verissimo was an important Brazilian writer, born in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. His father, Sebastião Veríssimo da Fonseca, heir of a rich family in Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, met financial ruin during his son's youth...
(1905–1975) - Fernando SabinoFernando SabinoFernando Sabino was a Brazilian writer and journalist.Sabino was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, where he lived until he was twenty, when he moved to Rio de Janeiro....
- Fernando GabeiraFernando GabeiraFernando Paulo Nagle Gabeira is a Brazilian politician, author and journalist. He has been a federal deputy for the State of Rio de Janeiro since 1995....
(1943) - José Pereira da Graça AranhaGraça AranhaJosé Pereira da Graça Aranha was a Brazilian writer and diplomat, considered to be a forerunner of the Modernism in Brazil. He was also one of the organizers of the Brazilian Modern Art Week of 1922....
(1868–1931) - Graciliano RamosGraciliano RamosGraciliano Ramos de Oliveira was a Brazilian Post-Modernist writer, politician and journalist. In most of his novels he depicts the precarious situation of the poor inhabitants of the Brazilian sertão.-Life:Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira was born in the city of Quebrangulo, in the Brazilian State...
(1892–1953) - João Guimarães Rosa (1908–1967)
- Hilda HilstHilda HilstHilda de Almeida Prado Hilst, more widely known as Hilda Hilst was a Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist, whose fiction and poetry were generally based upon delicate intimacy and often insanity and supernatural events. Particularly her late works belong to the tradition of magic realism.-Early...
(1930–2004) - Holdemar MenezesHoldemar MenezesHoldemar Menezes was a Brazilian writer.He was born in Aracati, Ceará, Brazil, as the 3rd child of Ezequiel Silva de Menezes and Otília Oliveira de Menezes...
(1921–1996) - João AlminoJoão AlminoJoão Almino is a Brazilian novelist. He is the author of The Brasília Quintet, which consists of the novels Ideas on Where to Spend the End of the World, Samba-Enredo, The Five Seasons of Love João Almino is a Brazilian novelist. He is the author of The Brasília Quintet, which consists of the...
(1950-) - João Gilberto NollJoão Gilberto NollJoão Gilberto Noll is a Brazilian writer, born on April 15, 1946 in Porto Alegre, in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. His early years were spent studying at the Catholic Colégio São Pedro...
(1946-) - João Ubaldo RibeiroJoão Ubaldo RibeiroJoão Ubaldo Ribeiro is a Brazilian author born in Itaparica, Bahia on January 23, 1941. In the English speaking world his An Invincible Memory has been highly praised...
(1941) - Joaquim Manuel de MacedoJoaquim Manuel de MacedoJoaquim Manuel de Macedo was a Brazilian novelist, doctor, teacher, poet, playwright and journalist, famous for the romance A Moreninha.He is the patron of the 20th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.-Life:...
(1820–1882) - Jorge AmadoJorge AmadoJorge Leal Amado de Faria was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school. He was the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and her Two Husbands in 1978...
(1912–2001) - José Américo de AlmeidaJosé Américo de AlmeidaJosé Américo de Almeida was a Brazilian writer, a politician, a lawyer and a teacher.- Bibliography :* Reflexões de um Cabra, 1922* A Paraíba e seus Problemas, 1923* A Bagaceira, 1928...
(1887–1980) - José Cândido CarvalhoJosé Cândido CarvalhoJosé Cândido de Carvalho was a Brazilian writer born in Rio de Janeiro on August 5, 1914. His O Coronel e o Lobisomem was the basis for a TV series and feature film. He died August 1, 1989-External links:**...
(1914–1989) - José de AlencarJosé de AlencarJosé Martiniano de Alencar was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist. He is one of the most famous writers of the first generation of Brazilian Romanticism, writing historical, regionalist and Indianist romances — being the most famous The Guarani...
(1829–1877) - José Lins do RegoJosé Lins do RegoJosé Lins do Rego Cavalcanti was a Brazilian novelist most known for his semi-autobiographical "sugarcane cycle." These novels were the basis of films that had distribution in the English speaking world...
(1901–1957) - José Mauro de VasconcelosJosé Mauro de Vasconcelos- Biography :José Mauro was born in Rio de Janeiro on February 26 of 1920. His family was very poor, and when he was still very young, he migrated to Natal where relatives took care of him. Entering the Medical Faculty, José abandoned the course of studies in his second year and returned to Rio de...
(1920–1984) - Lima BarretoLima BarretoAfonso Henriques de Lima Barreto was a Brazilian novelist and journalist. A major figure on the Brazilian Pre-Modernism, he is famous for the novel Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma, a bitter satire of the first years of the República Velha in Brazil.-Life:Lima Barreto was born in Rio de Janeiro in...
(1881–1922) - Lourenço MutarelliLourenço MutarelliLourenço Mutarelli is a Brazilian comic book artist who became well regarded in the Brazilian underground comics scene in the late 1980s and 1990s....
(1964-) - Lúcio CardosoLúcio CardosoJoaquim Lúcio Cardoso Filho, known as Lúcio Cardoso was a Brazilian novelist, playwright, and poet....
(1913–1968) - Lya LuftLya LuftLya Luft is a Brazilian writer, a novelist, a poet, a prolific translator of German descent. She was also a college professor of linguistics and literature. Luft currently writes an opinion column for Veja magazine...
(1938-) - Lygia Fagundes TellesLygia Fagundes TellesLygia Fagundes Telles is a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in São Paulo and is one of Brazil's most important living writers....
(1923-) - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908)
- Manuel Antônio de AlmeidaManuel Antônio de AlmeidaManuel Antônio de Almeida was a Brazilian writer, medician and teacher. He is famous for the book Memoirs of a Police Sergeant, written under the pen name Um Brasileiro...
(1831–1861) - Márcio SouzaMárcio SouzaMárcio Souza is a Brazilian writer, recognized for his focus on Amazonia.-Fiction:*Galvez – Imperador do Acre *Operação Silêncio *Mad Maria *A Resistível Ascensão do Boto Tucuxi...
(1946-) novelist - Mário de AndradeMário de AndradeMário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism, he virtually created modern Brazilian poetry with the publication of his Paulicéia Desvairada in 1922...
(1893–1945) - Moacyr ScliarMoacyr ScliarMoacyr Jaime Scliar was a Brazilian writer and physician.Scliar is best known outside Brazil for his 1981 novel Max and the Cats , the story of a young man who flees Berlin after he comes to the attention of the Nazis for having had an affair with a married woman...
(1937-) - Orígenes LessaOrígenes LessaOrígenes Lessa, journalist, short story writer, novelist, and a writer of essays, was born in Lençóis Paulista, SP, on July 12, 1903, and died in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, on July 13, 1986...
(1903–1986) - Oswald de AndradeOswald de AndradeJosé Oswald de Andrade Souza was a Brazilian poet and polemicist. He was born and spent most of his life in São Paulo....
(1890–1954) - Paulo CoelhoPaulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist.-Biography:Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He attended a Jesuit school. As a teenager, Coelho wanted to become a writer. Upon telling his mother this, she responded with "My dear, your father is an engineer. He's a logical,...
(1947-) - Paulo LinsPaulo LinsPaulo Lins is a Brazilian author.Lins grew up in Rio de Janeiro and at the age of seven moved to the Cidade de Deus favela. He escaped the cycle of violence to become a successful writer....
- Rachel de QueirozRachel de QueirozRachel de Queiroz was a Brazilian author and journalist....
(1910–2003) - Socorro AcioliSocorro AcioliSocorro Acioli is a Brazilian author, best known as the writer of Frei Tito and Rachel de Queiroz.-Bibliography:-Awards:* Melhor Obra Inédita de Literatura Infantil - Secretaria de Cultura do Estado do Ceará 2005...
(1975-) novelist, journalist - Raduan NassarRaduan NassarRaduan Nassar is a Brazilian writer. The son of Lebanese immigrants, he moved to São Paulo when he was a teenager. He studied Law and Philosophy at one of the most important universities in Brazil, the University of São Paulo.In 1970, he wrote Um Copo de Cólera, published in 1978...
(1935-) - Regina RhedaRegina RhedaRegina Rheda is a Brazilian author living in the United States. She is known for her prose fiction concerning urbanism, transnational migration, and animal rights. Before becoming a writer, she had worked with film, video and television...
(1957-) - Roberto DrummondRoberto DrummondRoberto Francis Drummond was a Brazilian journalist and writer.-Works:*A morte de DJ em Paris *O dia em que Ernest Hemingway morreu crucificado *Sangue de coca-cola...
(1933–2002) - Rubem FonsecaRubem FonsecaRubem Fonseca is a Brazilian writer.He was born in Juiz de Fora, in the state of Minas Gerais, but he has lived most of his life in Rio de Janeiro. In 1952, he started his career as a low-level cop and, later became a police commissioner, one of the highest ranks in the civil police of Brazil...
(1925-) - Sérsi BardariSérsi BardariSérsi Bardari is a Brazilian writer. He was born in São Paulo city, state of São Paulo, in 1954. His first book is called O cigano de Itaparica and which wrote in 1983...
(1954-) - Viscount of Taunay (1843–1899)
- Antônio Gonçalves Teixeira e Souza) (1812–1861)
- Urda Alice Klueger
- Pedro NavaPedro Nava (writer)Pedro da Silva Nava was a Brazilian writer., medicina.ufmg.br , Retrieved July 14, 2011-Works:*Baú de Ossos*Balão Cativo*Chão-de-Ferro*Beira-Mar*Galo-das-Trevas*O Círio Perfeito-References:...
(1903–1984) novelist - Mário PalmérioMário PalmérioMário de Ascenção Palmério was an Brazilian politician and writer, who was born in Monte Carmelo, state of Minas Gerais, on March 1, 1916. He died at Uberaba, state of Minas Gerais, in 1996.- Bibliography :*Vila dos confins, novel ;...
(1916–1996) novelist - Nélida PiñonNélida PiñonNélida Piñon is a Brazilian writer born May 3, 1937 in Rio de Janeiro of Spanish immigrants. Her first novel was Guia-Mapa de Gabriel Arcanjo , written in 1961, it concerns a protagonist discussing Christian doctrine with her guardian angel...
(1937-) novelist - Raul PompéiaRaul PompéiaRaul d'Ávila Pompeia was a Brazilian novelist, short story writer and chronicler. He is famous for the Impressionist romance O Ateneu.He is patron of the 33rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.-Biography:...
(1863–1895) novelist - Godofredo RangelGodofredo RangelJosé Godofredo de Moura Rangel is a Brazilian writer, who was born in Três Corações city, state of Minas Gerais, in 1884. He was friend of Monteiro Lobato. Godofredo Rangel was a regionalist writer who wrote about culture and history of Minas Gerais, his native land...
(1884–1951) novelist - Marcos ReyMarcos ReyEdmundo Donato was a popular Brazilian writer, whose pseudonym is Marcos Rey. He was born in São Paulo city, state of São Paulo, in 1925. His brother Mário Donato is also a writer. He started writing short stories when he was sixteen years old. His first book is a novella which is called Um Gato no...
(1925–1999) novelist - José Rezende FilhoJosé Rezende FilhoJosé Rezende Filho is a Brazilian writer.José Rezende Filho was born in Recife, in 1929. He spent most of his childhood in Carpina, in Pernambuco state, where he completed his elementary education....
(1929–1977) novelist - Júlio RibeiroJulio Cézar Ribeiro VaughamJúlio César Ribeiro Vaughan was a Brazilian Naturalist novelist, philologist, journalist and grammarian. He is famous for his polemical romance A Carne and for idealizing the flag of the State of São Paulo, which he wanted to be the flag of Brazil.He is patron of the 24th chair of the Brazilian...
(1845–1890) novelist - Sérgio Sant'AnnaSérgio Sant'AnnaSérgio Sant'Anna is a Brazilian writer, born in 1941 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. He has written poems, plays, short stories, novelas and novels...
(1941-) novelist - José SarneyJosé SarneyJosé Sarney de Araújo Costa is a Brazilian lawyer, writer and politician. He served as president of Brazil from 15 March 1985 to 15 March 1990....
novelist - Bernardo GuimarãesBernardo GuimarãesBernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães was a Brazilian poet and novelist. He is the author of the famous romances A Escrava Isaura and O Seminarista. He also introduced to the Brazilian poetry the "verso bestialógico" , poems whose verses are very nonsensical, although very metrical...
(Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães) - novelist, poet
Literary Critics
- Alfredo BosiAlfredo BosiAlfredo Bosi is a Brazilian historian, literary critic, and professor. He is member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras . One of his most famous books in Brazil is the "História Concisa da Literatura Brasileira", using in many Universities along the years...
(1936- ) - Antonio CandidoAntônio CandidoAntonio Candido de Mello e Souza was born in Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil, on July 24, 1918. He is a writer, professor, and literary critic. He was the co-winner of the Prêmio Jabuti for essays in 1965.-Partial bibliography:...
(1965- ) - Otto Maria CarpeauxOtto Maria CarpeauxOtto Maria Carpeaux , born Otto Karpfen, was a Brazilian literary critic born in Austria and multilingual scholar.Carpeaux was born in 1900 in Vienna, Austria, to a Jewish family, and lived there until 1939...
(1900–1978) - Afrânio CoutinhoAfrânio CoutinhoAfrânio Coutinho was a Brazilian literary critic and essayist. He encouraged the rise of the "New Criticism" in Brazil of the 1950s....
(1911–2000) - Benedito Nunes (1929-) critic
- Wilson MartinsWilson MartinsWilson Martins was a Brazilian literary critic and cultural historian who was a regular contributor for the Jornal do Brasil and O Estado de S.Paulo....
(1921- ) - Mário de AndradeMário de AndradeMário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism, he virtually created modern Brazilian poetry with the publication of his Paulicéia Desvairada in 1922...
(1893–1945) - Oswald de AndradeOswald de AndradeJosé Oswald de Andrade Souza was a Brazilian poet and polemicist. He was born and spent most of his life in São Paulo....
(1890–1954) - José Guilherme MerquiorJosé Guilherme MerquiorJosé Guilherme Merquior was a Brazilian diplomat, academic, writer, literary critic and philosopher.-Biography:...
(1941–1991) - Augusto MeyerAugusto MeyerAugusto Meyer was a Brazilian poet, journalist, and folklorist...
(1902–1970) - Fernandes PinheiroFernandes PinheiroFernandes Pinheiro is a town and municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.-References:...
(1826–1878) - Sílvio RomeroSílvio RomeroSílvio Vasconcelos da Silveira Ramos Romero was a Brazilian "Condorist" poet, essayist, literary critic, professor and journalist....
(1851–1914) - Tobias Barreto de Meneses (1839–1889)
- Wilson MartinsWilson MartinsWilson Martins was a Brazilian literary critic and cultural historian who was a regular contributor for the Jornal do Brasil and O Estado de S.Paulo....
(1921-) critic - Florêncio Carlos de Abreu e SilvaFlorêncio Carlos de Abreu e SilvaFlorêncio Carlos de Abreu e Silva was a lawyer, journalist, writer and politician from Brazil....
politician, critic
Other writers
- Marcelo CassaroMarcelo CassaroMarcelo Cassaro is a Brazilian author of comics, RPGs and the sci-fi book Sword of the Galaxy . Along with Marcelo Del Debbio, he is one of the most well-known RPG authors in Brazil, he is also known for creating Holy Avenger, the longest living non-child-oriented comic in Brazil, as well as...
(1970) rpg creator, comics writer - Millôr FernandesMillôr FernandesMillôr Fernandes is a Brazilian cartoonist, humorist and playwright.He was born in Rio de Janeiro, and started his journalistic career already in 1938, publishing in several Brazilian magazines....
(1924-) humourist - Zélia GattaiZélia GattaiZélia Gattai was a Brazilian photographer, memoirist, novelist and author of children's literature, as well as a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. She was married to internationally famous writer Jorge Amado from 1945 until his death in 2001.Gattai was born in São Paulo city, state of...
(1916-) memoirist, children literature - Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant (Helena Morley)Alice Dayrell Caldeira BrantAlice Dayrell Caldeira Brant was a Brazilian juvenile writer. She was born in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil to a British-Brazilian father and a Portuguese-Brazilian mother. In 1893, at the age of 12, Alice began a diary, an astute, and often amusing, chronicle of daily happenings among her...
memoirist - Ricardo SemlerRicardo SemlerRicardo Semler is the CEO and majority owner of Semco SA, a Brazilian company best known for its radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering. Under his ownership, revenue has grown from US$4 million in 1982 to US$212 million in 2003 and his innovative business management...
business - Gabriel Soares de SouzaGabriel Soares de SouzaGabriel Soares de Souza was a Portuguese explorer and naturalist.A participant in Francisco Barretos Africa expeditions he settled in Brazil living there for...
naturalist - Mateus Soares de AzevedoMateus Soares de AzevedoMateus Soares de Azevedo is a Brazilian historian of religions, Islamologist, and journalist.- Biography :Mateus Soares de Azevedo has a graduate degree in international relations from George Washington University and holds a Masters degree in History of religions from the University of São Paulo,...
historian - Malba TahanMalba TahanMalba Tahan, full name Ali Yezzid Izz-Edin ibn-Salim Hanak Malba Tahan, was a fictitious Persian scholar. He was the creation and frequent pen name of Brazilian author Júlio César de Mello e Souza.-Biography:...
(1895–1974) pen name for Júlio César de Mello e SouzaJúlio César de Mello e SouzaJúlio César de Mello e Souza , was a Brazilian writer and mathematics professor. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.He has been called by one biographer "the only...
children literature - Adelmar TavaresAdelmar TavaresAdelmar Tavares da Silva was a lawyer, magistrate, jurist, professor and poet from Recife. He was a member of Brazilian Societies devoted to criminology and law. As a poet he was respected with several of his poems becoming songs...
poet - Franklin TávoraFranklin TávoraJoão Franklin da Silveira Távora was a Brazilian novelist, journalist, politician, lawyer and dramatist, famous for his Regionalist romance O Cabeleira, set in the 18th century Pernambuco...
(1842–1888) novelist - Miguel Torres de AndradeMiguel Torres de AndradeMiguel Torres de Andrade was an internationally known Brazilian writer and actor. Some of his movies were nominees for Oscars.-Filmography as writer:...
screenplay writer - Fagundes VarelaFagundes VarelaLuís Nicolau Fagundes Varela was a Brazilian Romantic poet, adept of the "Ultra-Romanticism" movement. He is patron of the 11th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.-Biography:...
(1841–1875) poet - Antônio VieiraAntônio VieiraAntônio Vieira was a Brazilian professional football coach who managed the Kuwaiti national team between 1987 and 1988.-References:...
(1608–1697) preacher, historian - Afonso ArinosAfonso Arinos-Works:* Os jagunços * Pelo sertão In the XIX th century, Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco was recognized as one of the most influential intellectuals of his time. His work is part of Brazils' most prestigious literature and contains a strong message of social criticism....
de Melo Franco (1868–1916) short stories - Austregésilo de AthaydeAustregésilo de AthaydeAustregésilo de Athayde was a writer and journalist born in Caruaru, Pernambuco. His career includes being invited by Assis Chateaubriand to work at a top position at the Diários Associados...
journalist - Fabrício Carpi NejarFabrício Carpi Nejar- Bibliography :* As Solas do Sol, 1998* Um Terno de Pássaros ao Sul, 2000* Terceira Sede, 2001* Biografia de uma árvore, 2002* Caixa de Sapatos, 2003* Cinco Marias, 2004* Como no Céu e Livro de Visitas, 2005* O amor esquece de começar, 2006...
poet - Aristides Fraga LimaAristides Fraga LimaAristides Fraga Lima is a popular Brazilian writer who was born in town of Paripiranga in the state of Bahia. He has a degree in Languages and Law...
(1923-) children literature - Henrique Maximiano Coelho NetoCoelho NetoHenrique Maximiano Coelho Neto was a Brazilian writer and politician...
(1864–1934) novelist - José do PatrocínioJosé do PatrocínioJosé Carlos do Patrocínio was a Brazilian writer, journalist, activist, orator and pharmacist. He founded and occupied the 21st chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1905.-Life:...
journalist - Afrânio PeixotoAfrânio PeixotoAfrânio Peixoto was a Brazilian medic, author, professor, and politician. Among his works are Maria Bonita. He was also President of Academia Brasileira de Letras in the 1922-1923 period....
(1876–1947) novelist - Afonso SchmidtAfonso SchmidtAffonso Schmidt was a journalist, short story writer, novelist, playwright-Biography:...
(1890–1964) journalist - Paulo SetúbalPaulo SetúbalPaulo de Oliveira Leite Setúbal was a Brazilian writer, lawyer, journalist, essayist and poet.He occupied the 31st chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1934 until his death in 1937....
(1893–1937) poet, novelist - Narbal FontesNarbal FontesNarbal Fontes is a popular Brazilian writer. He wrote his books together with his wife, who is called Ofélia Fontes. He was born in São Paulo city, state of São Paulo, on August 21, 1902 and died in Rio de Janeiro city, state of Rio de Janeiro, on April 29, 1960.-Bibliography:* No Reino do...
and Ofélia Fontes (1902–1960) - children literature - Eduardo PortellaEduardo PortellaEduardo Portella is a Brazilian essayist, author, and Professor Emeritus at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He has written thirty books and was President of UNESCO's general conference.-External links:**...
- critic - Francisco de Sales Torres HomemFrancisco de Sales Torres HomemFrancisco de Sales Torres Homem, Viscount of Inhomirim , was a physician, lawyer, journalist, romantic writer, deputy, senator, top officer of the National Treasury, president of the Bank of Brazil and Minister of Treasury...
(1822–1891) - Ivan ÂngeloIvan ÂngeloIvan Ângelo is a Brazilian writer who has worked as a novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He won the Prêmio Jabuti for his books A festa and Amor? and has received awards from the Association of Art Critics of São Paulo for A face horrivel and Pode me beijar se quiser...
(1936-) novelist, journalist, short stories - Paulo Fernando CraveiroPaulo Fernando CraveiroPaulo Fernando Craveiro is a writer, journalist, columnist and art critic.- Biography :...
(1934-) romance writer, chronicalist, poet, journalist - Jucilândio Dias de Sousa, (1971- ) economist and lecturer.
See also
- List of Latin American writers
- List of Brazilians
- Brazilian literatureBrazilian literatureBrazilian literature is written in the Portuguese language by Brazilians or in Brazil, even if prior to Brazil's independence from Portugal, in 1822...