Ailton Krenak
Ailton Krenak é escritor, roteirista, porta-voz e pensador indígena. Integrante da comunidade dos Krenak, aos dezessete anos migrou com seus parentes para o estado do Paraná. Posteriormente, tornou-se produtor gráfico e jornalista. Dedica-se ao movimento indígena desde muito jovem. Graças a esforços coletivos e do próprio escritor, o número de indivíduos de sua comunidade voltou a subir, depois de sofrer grande queda em números totais até os anos 1980, e fechou o século 20 com 150 indivíduos. É professor doutor Honoris Causa pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Participou da antologia A outra margem do ocidente (Minc-Funarte/ Companhia das Letras, 1999), e publicou a entrevista Ailton Krenak (Azougue, 2015) e O lugar onde a Terra desc
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João Cabral de Melo Neto was born in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, and is considered one of the greatest Brazilian poets of all time.
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He is often quoted saying "I try not to perfume the flower". His works are said to be dry, devoid of exaggerated emotions that are usually associated with poetry, sticking usually to images and actions and physical descriptions rather than feelings. The image of an engineer designing a building is often used to describe his poetry. It usually follows a strict meter and assonant rhymes.
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Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Nasceu em 1957, em São Paulo. É professora titular no Departamento de Antropologia da USP. Seu livro As barbas do imperador - D. Pedro II, um monarca nos trópicos ganhou o prêmio Jabuti Livro do Ano, em 1999. Além deste, publicou também: O espetáculo das raças, O sol do Brasil (prêmio Jabuti de melhor biografia, 2009), D. João carioca - história em quadrinhos sobre a chegada da corte portuguesa ao Brasil, em coautoria com Spacca -, entre outros livros.
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Upile Chisala
Upile Chisala is a poet from Malawi. She prefers the term "storyteller." She is considered an Instapoet. She is often considered to belong to Malawi's third generation of writers. She has won numerous awards, including Forbes Africa's 30 Under 30. Chisala was born in south-east Malawi in 1994, and grew up in Zomba.
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Kató Lomb
Kató Lomb was a Hungarian interpreter, translator, language genius and one of the first simultaneous interpreters of the world.
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Originally she graduated in physics and chemistry, but her interest soon led her to languages. Native in Hungarian, she was able to interpret fluently in nine or ten languages (in four of them even without preparation), and she translated technical literature and read belles-lettres in six languages. She was able to understand journalism in further eleven languages. As she put it, altogether she earned money with sixteen languages (Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian). She learned these languages mostly by self-e -
Nathalia Arcuri
Nathalia Arcuri é Educadora, Jornalista, Blogueira, e Planejadora Financeira. Em seu currículo ela tem jornalismo pela Uni Fiam Faam desde 2006. Arcuri teve trabalhos como Estagiária no SBT entre 2005 e 2006, Repórter, Produtora, Editora e Apresentadora no SBT entre os anos de 2007 e 2009.
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Odyr
Bernardi Odyr was born in 1967 in Pelotas, Brazil. A comics artist and painter, he has published Copacabana, written by Lobo, and Guadalupe, written by Angélica Freitas. His work has appeared in several comics anthologies, and his short stories and illustrations have been published in a number of Brazilian newspapers and magazines, including Folha de São Paulo, O Globo, and Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil.
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Déborah Danowski
Déborah Danowski is a Professor of Philosophy at the PUC-Rio (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro).
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Maria Aparecida Silva Bento
Maria Aparecida da Silva Bento, ou CIDA BENTO, nasceu em São Paulo (SP). Doutora em psicologia, defendeu em 2002 a tese intitulada "Pactos narcísicos no racismo: branquitude e poder nas organizações empresariais e no poder público". É conselheira e uma das fundadoras do Centro de Estudos das Relações de Trabalho e Desigualdades (Ceert). Foi professora visitante na Universidade do Texas e, em 2015, foi eleita pela revista britânica The Economist uma das cinquenta pessoas mais influentes do mundo no campo da diversidade.
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Djamila Ribeiro
Djamila Taís Ribeiro dos Santos is a Brazilian feminist and academic. She graduated in Philosophy from the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), in 2012, and became a Master in Political Philosophy at the same institution in 2015, with an emphasis on Feminist Theory.
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In 2005, she interrupted a degree in Journalism. His main activities are in the themes: Race and Gender Relations and Feminism. He is an online columnist for CartaCapital, Blogueiras Negras and Revista Azmina and has a strong presence in the digital environment, confirmed by his belief in the importance of appropriating the internet as a tool in the militancy of black women, and, according to Djamila, the "hegemonic media "tends to make them invisible.
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Geni Núñez
Geni Núñez é escritora, ativista indígena guarani e psicóloga. Atualmente é pesquisadora de pós-doutorado no Instituto de Estudos Avançados da Universidade de São Paulo (IEA-USP). Tem doutorado no Programa de Pós-Graduação Interdisciplinar em Ciências Humanas pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), onde também cursou mestrado em Psicologia Social e graduação em Psicologia. Integra a Comissão de Direitos Humanos (CDH) do Conselho Federal de Psicologia (CFP) e da Comissão Guarani Yvyrupa (CGY). É autora de Descolonizando afetos: experimentações sobre outras formas de amar (Paidós/Planeta, 2023), e do livro infantil Jaxy Jaterê, o saci guarani (HarperKids/HarperCollins, 2023), que conta com ilustrações de Miguela Moura. Ambos foram
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Ruth Guimarães
Nascida em Cachoeira Paulista-SP, em 13 de junho de 1920, Ruth Botelho Guimarães, além de poeta, romancista, contista, cronista, jornalista e teatróloga, notabilizou-se como tradutora e pesquisadora da literatura oral no Brasil.1 Além disso, lecionou Língua Portuguesa por mais de 30 anos em escolas da rede pública de São Paulo.
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Ainda menina, revelou-se poeta e, aos dez anos de idade, já publicava seus primeiros versos nos jornais A Região e A Notícia, ambos de circulação local. Aos dezoito anos, mudou-se para a capital paulista a fim de prosseguir seus estudos na USP, onde concluiu os cursos de Filosofia e, mais tarde, de Letras Clássicas. Cursou também Folclore e Estética.
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Achille Mbembe
Joseph-Achille Mbembe, known as Achille Mbembe (born 1957), is a Cameroonian philosopher, political theorist, and public intellectual.
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He has written extensively in African history and politics, including La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun (Paris, Karthala, 1996). On the Postcolony was published in Paris in 2000 in French and the English translation was published by the University of California Press, Berkeley, in 2001. In 2015, Wits University Press published a new, African edition. He has an A1 rating from the National Research Foundation. -
Luiz Antonio Simas
Luiz Antônio Simas (Rio de Janeiro, 2 de novembro de 1967) é um escritor, professor e historiador, compositor brasileiro e babalaô no culto de Ifá.
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Professor de História no ensino médio, é mestre em História Social pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Simas já trabalhou como consultor de acervo da área de Música de Carnaval do Museu da Imagem e do Som do Rio de Janeiro, e como jurado do Estandarte de Ouro, maior premiação do Carnaval carioca. Foi também colunista do jornal O Dia[2], e desenvolveu o projeto "Ágoras Cariocas", de aulas ao ar livre sobre a história do Rio de Janeiro. Em seus livros, procura resgatar a memória oral da cidade, especialmente da população marginalizada -
Geni Nuñez
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Machado de Assis
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, often known as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho, (June 21, 1839, Rio de Janeiro—September 29, 1908, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer. He is widely regarded as the most important writer of Brazilian literature. However, he did not gain widespread popularity outside Brazil in his own lifetime.
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Rachel de Queiroz
Quinta ocupante da Cadeira 5, eleita em 4 de agosto de 1977, na sucessão de Candido Motta Filho e recebida pelo Acadêmico Adonias Filho em 4 de novembro de 1977.
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Raquel de Queirós nasceu em Fortaleza (CE), em 17 de novembro de 1910, e faleceu no Rio de Janeiro (RJ) em 4 de novembro de 2003. Filha de Daniel de Queirós e de Clotilde Franklin de Queirós, descende, pelo lado materno, da estirpe dos Alencar, parente portanto do autor ilustre de O Guarani, e, pelo lado paterno, dos Queirós, família de raízes profundamente lançadas no Quixadá e Beberibe.
Em 1917, veio para o Rio de Janeiro, em companhia dos pais que procuravam, nessa migração, fugir dos horrores da terrível seca de 1915, que mais tarde a romancista iria aproveitar como tema de O Qui -
José Paulo Paes
José Paulo Paes foi um poeta, tradutor, crítico literário e ensaísta brasileiro.
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Tendo estudado química industrial na cidade de Curitiba (entre 1945 e 1948), durante muitos anos José Paulo trabalhou em laboratório farmacêutico. Todavia, paralelo a essa profissão jamais deixou de lado a literatura, cujo interesse foi lhe passado pelo avô que era livreiro, sendo que ainda nos tempos de aluno em Curitiba, já colaborava com a revista Joaquim, dirigida por Dalton Trevisan. Dessa temporada paranaense nasce seu livro de estreia, O aluno, de 1947, fortemente influenciado pela poesia de Carlos Drummond de Andrade, o qual o respondeu com o conselho de evitar a imitação de vozes alheias.
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Paulina Chiziane
Paulina "Poulli" Chiziane (born 4 June 1955, Manjacaze, southern province of Gaza, Mozambique) is an author of novels and short stories in the Portuguese language.
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She studied at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo. She was born to a Protestant family that moved from Gaza to the capital Maputo (then Lourenço Marques) during the writer's early childhood. At home she spoke Chopi and Ronga.
Chiziane was the first woman in Mozambique to publish a novel. Her writing has generated some polemical discussions about social issues, such as the practice of polygamy in the country. For example, her first novel, Balada do Amor ao Vento (1990), discusses polygamy in southern Mozambique during the colonial period. Related to her active involvement in the p -
Lygia Fagundes Telles
Lygia Fagundes Telles (born April 19, 1923) is a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in São Paulo and is one of Brazil's most important living writers.
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Her first book of short stories, Praia Viva (Living Beach), was published in 1944. In 1949 got the Afonso Arinos award for her short stories book O Cacto Vermelho (Red Cactus). Among her most successful books are Ciranda de Pedra (The Marble Dance) (1954), Verão no Aquário (1963), Antes do Baile Verde (1970), Seminário dos Ratos (1977) and As Horas Nuas, (1989). The book Antes do Baile Verde won the Best Foreign Women Writers Grand Prix in Cannes (France) in 1969.
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Caio Fernando Abreu
Caio Fernando Loureiro de Abreu nasceu no dia 12 de setembro de 1948, em Santiago, no Rio Grande do Sul. Jovem ainda mudou-se para Porto Alegre onde publicou seus primeiros contos. Cursou Letras na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, depois Artes Dramáticas, mas abandonou ambos para dedicar-se ao trabalho jornalístico no Centro e Sul do país, em revistas como Pop, Nova, Veja e Manchete, foi editor de Leia Livros e colaborou nos jornais Correio do Povo, Zero Hora, O Estado de São Paulo e Folha de São Paulo.
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No ano de 1968 — em plena ditadura militar — foi perseguido pelo DOPS (Departamento de Ordem Política e Social), tendo se refugiado no sítio da escritora e amiga Hilda Hilst, na periferia de Campinas, São Paulo.
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Conceição Evaristo
Conceição Evaristo was born in a slum in the south of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais / Brazil. She had to reconcile her studies with work as a domestic worker, until she completed her first years of study in 1971, at the age of 25. She then moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she passed a public competition for teaching and graduated in Letters at UFRJ.
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In the 1980s, she contacted Grupo Quilombhoje. She debuted in literature in 1990, with works published in the series Cadernos Negros, published by the organization.
She holds a Master's degree in Brazilian Literature from PUC-Rio, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF).
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Júlia Lopes de Almeida
The first Brazilian woman to lead what can legitimately be called a career as an author, Júlia Valentina de Silveira Lopes de Almeida was a novelist and playwright, an advocate for women's education and other progressive social reform, and an all-around intellectual. Though she was immensely popular in the late 19th and early 20th Century, her works were forgotten soon after her death, largely due to the country's literary trajectory toward modernism. Recently, however, scholars and readers have begun to unearth and rediscover the pleasures and technical merits of the vast and diverse body of literature she left behind.
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Socorro Acioli
A Brazilian journalist, novelist and children's author, Socorro Acioli (1975- ) holds a masters in Brazilian literature, and began her literary career in 2001, going on to publish in a number of genres, for both adult and child readers. She has participated in a workshop run by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; has done research at the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany; and is currently pursuing a PhD in Literary Studies at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro.
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Socorro Acioli (Fortaleza, 24 de fevereiro de 1975) é uma escritora brasileira, formada em Comunicação Social com habilitação em jornalismo, mestre em Literatura Brasileira pela Universidade Federal do Ceará e Doutoranda em Literatura Comparada pela Universidade Fede -
Ruth Guimarães
Nascida em Cachoeira Paulista-SP, em 13 de junho de 1920, Ruth Botelho Guimarães, além de poeta, romancista, contista, cronista, jornalista e teatróloga, notabilizou-se como tradutora e pesquisadora da literatura oral no Brasil.1 Além disso, lecionou Língua Portuguesa por mais de 30 anos em escolas da rede pública de São Paulo.
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Jeferson Tenório
Jeferson Tenório was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1977. Based in Porto Alegre, he is a doctoral student in Literary Theory at PUCRS and a lecturer in literature.
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Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
DJAIMILIA PEREIRA DE ALMEIDA nasceu em Luanda em 1982. É licenciada em Estudos Portugueses, pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa e Mestre em Teoria da Literatura (2006) e Doutorada em Estudos Literários (Teoria da Literatura) (2012), pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Em 2013, foi uma das vencedoras do Prémio de Ensaísmo serrote atribuído no Brasil pela revista serrote, do Instituto Moreira Salles. Fundou e dirige a Forma de Vida (www.formadevida.org). Trabalha na Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia e é, desde março de 2021, consultora da Casa Civil do Presidente da República, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
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Djamila Ribeiro
Djamila Taís Ribeiro dos Santos is a Brazilian feminist and academic. She graduated in Philosophy from the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), in 2012, and became a Master in Political Philosophy at the same institution in 2015, with an emphasis on Feminist Theory.
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In 2005, she interrupted a degree in Journalism. His main activities are in the themes: Race and Gender Relations and Feminism. He is an online columnist for CartaCapital, Blogueiras Negras and Revista Azmina and has a strong presence in the digital environment, confirmed by his belief in the importance of appropriating the internet as a tool in the militancy of black women, and, according to Djamila, the "hegemonic media "tends to make them invisible.
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Maria Aparecida Silva Bento
Maria Aparecida da Silva Bento, ou CIDA BENTO, nasceu em São Paulo (SP). Doutora em psicologia, defendeu em 2002 a tese intitulada "Pactos narcísicos no racismo: branquitude e poder nas organizações empresariais e no poder público". É conselheira e uma das fundadoras do Centro de Estudos das Relações de Trabalho e Desigualdades (Ceert). Foi professora visitante na Universidade do Texas e, em 2015, foi eleita pela revista britânica The Economist uma das cinquenta pessoas mais influentes do mundo no campo da diversidade.
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Antônio Bispo dos Santos
Antônio Bispo dos Santos nasceu em 1959 no vale do rio Berlengas, Piauí. Lavrador, formou-se com os saberes de mestras e mestres do Quilombo Saco Curtume, no município de São João do Piauí, e foi o primeiro de sua família a ser alfabetizado. Desde cedo, foi incumbido de desenvolver a habilidade de traduzir para a escrita a sabedoria de seu povo e mediar as relações com o Estado, cuja violência se manifesta, também, pela invalidação da oralidade. Como liderança, atuou na Coordenação Estadual das Comunidades Quilombolas do Piauí (Cecoq/PI) e na Coordenação Nacional de Articulação das Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas (Conaq). Sua atuação política nos movimentos de luta pela terra ancora-se na cosmovisão dos povos contracolonizadores. Nêgo
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José Henrique Bortoluci
Doutor em sociologia e professor da FGV, José Henrique Bortoluci é autor de O que é meu, livro em que trata das memórias de seu pai, motorista de caminhão por cinquenta anos, das transformações por que passou o Brasil e do tempo presente. Antes mesmo de ser publicado, o título já teve os direitos vendidos para mais de dez países.
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Geni Núñez
Geni Núñez é escritora, ativista indígena guarani e psicóloga. Atualmente é pesquisadora de pós-doutorado no Instituto de Estudos Avançados da Universidade de São Paulo (IEA-USP). Tem doutorado no Programa de Pós-Graduação Interdisciplinar em Ciências Humanas pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), onde também cursou mestrado em Psicologia Social e graduação em Psicologia. Integra a Comissão de Direitos Humanos (CDH) do Conselho Federal de Psicologia (CFP) e da Comissão Guarani Yvyrupa (CGY). É autora de Descolonizando afetos: experimentações sobre outras formas de amar (Paidós/Planeta, 2023), e do livro infantil Jaxy Jaterê, o saci guarani (HarperKids/HarperCollins, 2023), que conta com ilustrações de Miguela Moura. Ambos foram
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Júlia Lopes de Almeida
The first Brazilian woman to lead what can legitimately be called a career as an author, Júlia Valentina de Silveira Lopes de Almeida was a novelist and playwright, an advocate for women's education and other progressive social reform, and an all-around intellectual. Though she was immensely popular in the late 19th and early 20th Century, her works were forgotten soon after her death, largely due to the country's literary trajectory toward modernism. Recently, however, scholars and readers have begun to unearth and rediscover the pleasures and technical merits of the vast and diverse body of literature she left behind.
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Nate DiMeo
Nate DiMeo is an American podcaster, screenwriter, and author based out of Los Angeles, and the host of his award-winning podcast, The Memory Palace. He is also the co-author of Pawnee: the Greatest Town in America and a finalist for the 2012 Thurber Prize for American Humor. After spending a decade on public radio, featured on programs ranging from NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition, to Marketplace, DiMeo decided to found his own his podcast centered around lesser-known historical narratives. Since 2008, the podcast – The Memory Palace – has been received with critical acclaim and was nominated for a Peabody Award in 2016.
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Born to free parents in Baltimore, Maryland. After her mother died when she was three years old in 1828, Watkins was orphaned. She was raised by her aunt and uncle. She was educated at the Academy for Negro Youth, a school run by her uncle Rev. William Watkins, who was a civil rights activist. He was a major influence on her life and work. At fourteen, she found work as a seamstress.
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Frances Watkins had her first volume of verse, Forest Leaves, published in 1845 (it has been lost). Her second book, Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, published in 1854, was extremely popular. Over the next few years, it was reprinted in 20 editions. Many African American women's service clubs named themselves in her honor, and across the nation, in cities such a -
Bruno Paes Manso
Bruno Paes Manso holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Sao Paulo (2012), an MA in Political Science from the University of Sao Paulo (2003), a BA in economics from the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Sao Paulo (1993), and a BA in journalism from the Pontifical Catholic University (1996).
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Clarissa Pinkola Estés
An American poet, psychoanalyst and post-trauma specialist who was raised in now nearly vanished oral and ethnic traditions. She is a first-generation American who grew up in a rural village, population 600, near the Great Lakes. Of Mexican mestiza and majority Magyar and minority Swabian tribal heritages, she comes from immigrant and refugee families who could not read or write, or who did so haltingly. Much of her writing is influenced by her family people who were farmers, shepherds, hopsmeisters, wheelwrights, weavers, orchardists, tailors, cabinet makers, lacemakers, knitters, and horsemen and horsewomen from the Old Countries.
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Paulo Freire
The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire is among most the influential educational thinkers of the late 20th century. Born in Recife, Brazil, on September 19, 1921, Freire died of heart failure in Sao Paulo, Brazil on May 2, 1997. After a brief career as a lawyer, he taught Portuguese in secondary schools from 1941-1947. He subsequently became active in adult education and workers' training, and became the first Director of the Department of Cultural Extension of the University of Recife (1961-1964).
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Freire quickly gained international recognition for his experiences in literacy training in Northeastern Brazil. Following the military coup d'etat of 1964, he was jailed by the new government and eventually forced into a political exile that lasted -
Amyr Klink
Amyr Klink (born September 25, 1955 in São Paulo, Brazil) is an explorer and sailor. His project "Antarctica 360" was circumnavigating the Antarctic continent on his own, in 79 days in 1998.
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Klink has written seven books about his voyages, including Between Two Poles about his trip from Antarctica to the Arctic Pole, starting in 1989 and taking 642 days. Klink helped in the construction of the polar vessel used in this trip, named Paratii after the town of Paraty in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
His chronicles 100 Days Between Sea and Sky reports on how he crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 100 days on his own by rowing a small boat with his arms in 1984 from Africa to the state of Bahia in Brazil. The food portions in this trip were compac -
Antônio Bispo dos Santos
Antônio Bispo dos Santos nasceu em 1959 no vale do rio Berlengas, Piauí. Lavrador, formou-se com os saberes de mestras e mestres do Quilombo Saco Curtume, no município de São João do Piauí, e foi o primeiro de sua família a ser alfabetizado. Desde cedo, foi incumbido de desenvolver a habilidade de traduzir para a escrita a sabedoria de seu povo e mediar as relações com o Estado, cuja violência se manifesta, também, pela invalidação da oralidade. Como liderança, atuou na Coordenação Estadual das Comunidades Quilombolas do Piauí (Cecoq/PI) e na Coordenação Nacional de Articulação das Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas (Conaq). Sua atuação política nos movimentos de luta pela terra ancora-se na cosmovisão dos povos contracolonizadores. Nêgo
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Paulina Chiziane
Paulina "Poulli" Chiziane (born 4 June 1955, Manjacaze, southern province of Gaza, Mozambique) is an author of novels and short stories in the Portuguese language.
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She studied at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo. She was born to a Protestant family that moved from Gaza to the capital Maputo (then Lourenço Marques) during the writer's early childhood. At home she spoke Chopi and Ronga.
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Marshall Sahlins
Marshall David Sahlins was an American cultural anthropologist best known for his ethnographic work in the Pacific and for his contributions to anthropological theory. He was the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.
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Marcos Costa
Marcos Costa pensou em ser arquiteto, mas logo desistiu e foi fazer História na UNESP. Tornou-se mestre e doutor em História Social também pela UNESP. Historiador, professor universitário, pesquisador e escritor.
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Dipesh Chakrabarty
Dipesh Chakrabarty (b. 1948) is a Bengali historian who has also made contributions to postcolonial theory and subaltern studies.
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He attended Presidency College of the University of Calcutta, where he received his undergraduate degree in physics. He also received a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. Later he moved on to the Australian National University in Canberra, from where he earned a PhD in history.
He is currently the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College at the University of Chicago. He was a visiting faculty at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Chakrabarty also serves as a contribut -
Michelle Rial
Michelle Rial was born in Santa Cruz, CA to Venezuelan immigrants who really loved The Beatles' song "Michelle." You may have seen her illustrations, writing, or charts on The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, Fast Company, WIRED, Refinery29, and elsewhere on the internet.
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She has been publishing charts online for over a decade and was named by Vulture as one of "9 of the Funniest Cartoonists and Illustrators on Instagram" in 2019. -
Florestan Fernandes
sociologist and politician.
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He came from a poor family with his mother being a "washerwoman." In youth he took a series of odd jobs and had an erratic education until he attended the university in 1941. In 1945 he graduated and by 1964 was a full professor in sociology. In that same year he won the Prêmio Jabuti. In 1969 he fled to Canada for political reasons and began to teach at the University of Toronto. In 1973 he returned to Brazil and became involved in the Partido dos Trabalhadores. At 75 he died of an embolism. -
Evgeny Morozov
Evgeny Morozov is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and runs the magazine's "Net Effect" blog about the Internet's impact on global politics. Morozov has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation, a Yahoo! fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, a fellow at George Soros's Open Society Institute, and the Director of New Media at Transitions Online.
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Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
DJAIMILIA PEREIRA DE ALMEIDA nasceu em Luanda em 1982. É licenciada em Estudos Portugueses, pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa e Mestre em Teoria da Literatura (2006) e Doutorada em Estudos Literários (Teoria da Literatura) (2012), pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Em 2013, foi uma das vencedoras do Prémio de Ensaísmo serrote atribuído no Brasil pela revista serrote, do Instituto Moreira Salles. Fundou e dirige a Forma de Vida (www.formadevida.org). Trabalha na Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia e é, desde março de 2021, consultora da Casa Civil do Presidente da República, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
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Caio Fernando Abreu
Caio Fernando Loureiro de Abreu nasceu no dia 12 de setembro de 1948, em Santiago, no Rio Grande do Sul. Jovem ainda mudou-se para Porto Alegre onde publicou seus primeiros contos. Cursou Letras na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, depois Artes Dramáticas, mas abandonou ambos para dedicar-se ao trabalho jornalístico no Centro e Sul do país, em revistas como Pop, Nova, Veja e Manchete, foi editor de Leia Livros e colaborou nos jornais Correio do Povo, Zero Hora, O Estado de São Paulo e Folha de São Paulo.
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No ano de 1968 — em plena ditadura militar — foi perseguido pelo DOPS (Departamento de Ordem Política e Social), tendo se refugiado no sítio da escritora e amiga Hilda Hilst, na periferia de Campinas, São Paulo.
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Ana Martins Marques
Nasceu em Belo Horizonte, em novembro de 1977. Formada em Letras pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, é mestre em Literatura Brasileira e doutoranda em Literatura Comparada pela mesma universidade. Em 2007, ganhou o Prêmio Cidade de Belo Horizonte, na categoria “Poesia — autor estreante”, e, em 2008, recebeu novamente o mesmo prêmio, na categoria “Poesia”.
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José Paulo Paes
José Paulo Paes foi um poeta, tradutor, crítico literário e ensaísta brasileiro.
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Tendo estudado química industrial na cidade de Curitiba (entre 1945 e 1948), durante muitos anos José Paulo trabalhou em laboratório farmacêutico. Todavia, paralelo a essa profissão jamais deixou de lado a literatura, cujo interesse foi lhe passado pelo avô que era livreiro, sendo que ainda nos tempos de aluno em Curitiba, já colaborava com a revista Joaquim, dirigida por Dalton Trevisan. Dessa temporada paranaense nasce seu livro de estreia, O aluno, de 1947, fortemente influenciado pela poesia de Carlos Drummond de Andrade, o qual o respondeu com o conselho de evitar a imitação de vozes alheias.
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Rachel de Queiroz
Quinta ocupante da Cadeira 5, eleita em 4 de agosto de 1977, na sucessão de Candido Motta Filho e recebida pelo Acadêmico Adonias Filho em 4 de novembro de 1977.
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Raquel de Queirós nasceu em Fortaleza (CE), em 17 de novembro de 1910, e faleceu no Rio de Janeiro (RJ) em 4 de novembro de 2003. Filha de Daniel de Queirós e de Clotilde Franklin de Queirós, descende, pelo lado materno, da estirpe dos Alencar, parente portanto do autor ilustre de O Guarani, e, pelo lado paterno, dos Queirós, família de raízes profundamente lançadas no Quixadá e Beberibe.
Em 1917, veio para o Rio de Janeiro, em companhia dos pais que procuravam, nessa migração, fugir dos horrores da terrível seca de 1915, que mais tarde a romancista iria aproveitar como tema de O Qui -
Ana Luísa Amaral
ANA LUÍSA AMARAL nasceu em Lisboa, a 5 de Abril de 1956. Doutorada em Literatura Norte-Americana com uma tese sobre Emily Dickinson, ensinou Literatura Inglesa no Departamento de Estudos Anglo-Americanos da Faculdade de Letras do Porto. Autora de oito livros de poesia e dois livros infantis, está representada em diversas antologias portuguesas e estrangeiras e foi traduzida para várias línguas, como castelhano, inglês, francês, alemão, holandês, russo, búlgaro e croata. Faleceu a 6 de Agosto de 2022.
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Cecília Meireles
Cecília 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 rightly combatted the word "poetess" because of gender discrimination.
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She traveled in the Americas in the 1940s, visiting the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. In the summer of 1940 she gave lectures at the University of Texas, Austin. She wrote two poems about her time in the capital of Texas, and a long (800 lines) very socially-aware poem "USA 1940", which was published posthumously. As a journalist her columns (crônicas, or chronicles) focused mo -
Tomás Antônio Gonzaga
Tomás Antônio Gonzaga was a Portuguese Brazilian poet. One of the most famous Neoclassic Brazilian writers, he was also the ouvidor and the ombudsman of the city of Ouro Preto (formerly "Vila Rica"), as well as the desembargador of the appeal court in Bahia. He wrote under the pen name Dirceu.
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Gonzaga was born in the Portuguese city of Porto, to Brazilian João Bernardo Gonzaga and Portuguese Tomásia Isabel Clark. As a child, the family moved to Recife and to Bahia, where João Bernardo served at the magistrature. Gonzaga was sent back to Portugal as a teenager, to the University of Coimbra, to finish his studies. With 24 years, he finished his Law course. He candidated himself to a chair at the University, with the thesis Tratado de Direito N -
Luís Bernardo Honwana
Luís Bernado Honwana (born 1942) is a Mozambican author.
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Luís Bernardo Honwana was born Luís Augusto Bernardo Manuel in Lourenço Marques (present-day Maputo), Mozambique. His parents, Raúl Bernardo Manuel (Honwana) and Naly Jeremias Nhaca, belonged to the Ronga people from Moamba, a town about 55 km northwest of Maputo. In 1964 he became a militant with FRELIMO, a front that had the objective to liberate Mozambique from Portuguese colonial rule. Due to his political activities he was arrested by the colonial authorities and was incarcerated for three years.
He studied law in Portugal and worked for some time as a journalist. He was appointed director of President's office under Samora Machel. Later in 1981, he became Secretary of State for cu -
Marcello Quintanilha
Marcello Quintanilha nasceu em Niterói, Brasil, em 1971. Começou, ainda adolescente, por desenhar histórias sobre artes marciais com o pseudónimo de Marcello Gáu. Mais tarde, em 2003, envolve-se na série "Sept balles pour Oxford", para uma editora belga, com argumento do argentino Jorge Zentner e do espanhol Montecarlo. Estabelece-se, a partir de 2002, em Barcelona. Ilustrações suas surgem desde então nos jornais espanhóis "El País" e "Vanguardia". Ao mesmo tempo, continua a produzir álbuns para o público brasileiro. Em 2005 foi dado à estampa "Salvador". Seguiram-se "Sábado dos meus amores" (2009), "Almas públicas" (2011), "O ateneu" (2012), "Tungstênio" (2014), "Talco de vidro" (2015), "Hinário nacional" (2016) e "Luzes de Niterói" (2018)
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Jessé Souza
Jessé José Freire de Souza is a sociologist, university professor and Brazilian researcher who works in the areas of Social Theory, Brazilian Social Thought and theoretical / empirical studies on inequality and social classes in contemporary Brazil. He is the author of the books 'A Ralé Brasileira', A Radiografia do Golpe', 'A Elite do Atraso' and 'A Classe Média no Espelho'.
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Graduated in Law from the University of Brasília (1981), he completed his Master's degree in Sociology from the same institution in 1986. In 1991, he obtained a PhD in Sociology from the Karl Ruprecht Universität Heidelberg (Germany), where he obtained free teaching and PhD in the same discipline at the Universität Flensburg in 2006. He also did postdoctoral studies in -
Prisca Agustoni
Prisca Agustoni, born in Lugano in 1975, has been living between Switzerland and Brazil since 2003. In Brazil she teaches Comparative Literature and Italian at a university. She writes poetry and prose and translates from the Italian and Portuguese.
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Ugo Bertotti
Ugo Bertotti was born in Trento, in 1954. He graduated at Fine Arts Academy of Brera, Milan. From Seventies he wrote and drew. His works have been translated in several countries. In 2012 he published the comic reportage “Femmes du Yémen” inside the French magazine XXI. In 2013 he published the graphic novel “Il mondo di Aisha”, Coconino Press, about the silent resistance of the women in Yemen. In 2016 his latest comic book “Vivere” was published too.
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Lima Barreto
Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto nasceu em 1881 na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Enfrentou o preconceito por ser mestiço durante a vida. Ficou órfão aos sete anos de idade de mãe e, algum tempo depois, seu pai foi trabalhar como almoxarife em um asilo de loucos chamado Colônia de Alienados da Ilha do Governador.
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Concluiu o curso secundário na Escola Politécnica, contudo, teve que abandonar a faculdade de Engenharia, pois seu pai havia sido internado, vítima de loucura, e o autor foi obrigado a arcar com as despesas de casa.
Como leu bastante após a conclusão do segundo grau, sua produção textual era de excelente qualidade, foi então que iniciou sua atividade como jornalista, sendo colaborador da imprensa. Contribuiu para as principais revistas de -
Sérgio Rodrigues
Sérgio Rodrigues (Brazil, 1962), fiction writer, literary critic and journalist, is the author of seven books of various genres: novels, short stories and non-fiction.
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Having worked for most major newspapers and magazines in Brazil, Rodrigues is now a full-time writer who keeps two columns – one about literature, the other focused on language issues – in Veja.com, the online version of the largest weekly magazine in Latin America. He was awarded the Prêmio Cultura (Culture Prize) 2011 by the Rio de Janeiro State Government for the whole of his work. He lives in Rio de Janeiro. -
Hanna Limulja
Hanna Cibele Lins Rocha Limulja nasceu em 2 de abril de 1982, em São Paulo. É graduada (2005) em ciências sociais pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), e mestre (2007) e doutora (2019) em antropologia social pela mesma instituição. Trabalha com os Yanomami desde 2008, tendo atuado em ONGs no Brasil e no exterior, como Comissão Pró-Yanomami (CCPY), Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), Wataniba e Survival International. Atualmente trabalha em um projeto de promoção e atendimento à saúde yanomami e dos povos indígenas do DSEI Leste de Roraima. Integra a Rede Pró-Yanomami e Ye’kwana, criada em 2020 por um coletivo de pesquisadores e aliados na luta pela garantia dos direitos territoriais, culturais e políticos desses povos.
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Carla Maliandi
Carla Maliandi was born in Venezuela in 1976 and is the daughter of Argentinian philosophers Ricardo Maliandi and Graciela Fernández who were forced to escape Argentina’s military regime. She is an award-winning playwright, theatre director, university lecturer and writer. She has written and directed five theatre plays, which were all staged in Buenos Aires as well as in different international theatre festivals. She has also co-written several other plays. She is part of the writers’ collective Rioplatensas as part of which she directs a literary journal and a TV programme. Her plays Espejo en el desierto (Mirror in the desert) and Regen (Rain) appeared in an anthology published by the National Theatre Institute of Argentina, and her shor
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Steven Levitsky
Steven Levitsky is an American political scientist and Professor of Government at Harvard University. A comparative political scientist, his research interests focus on Latin America and include political parties and party systems, authoritarianism and democratization, and weak and informal institutions.
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Lygia Fagundes Telles
Lygia Fagundes Telles (born April 19, 1923) is a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in São Paulo and is one of Brazil's most important living writers.
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Her first book of short stories, Praia Viva (Living Beach), was published in 1944. In 1949 got the Afonso Arinos award for her short stories book O Cacto Vermelho (Red Cactus). Among her most successful books are Ciranda de Pedra (The Marble Dance) (1954), Verão no Aquário (1963), Antes do Baile Verde (1970), Seminário dos Ratos (1977) and As Horas Nuas, (1989). The book Antes do Baile Verde won the Best Foreign Women Writers Grand Prix in Cannes (France) in 1969.
Her most famous novel is As Meninas (The Girl in the Photograph), which tells the story of three young women in -
Nísia Floresta
Nísia Floresta Brasileira Augusta, pseudônimo de Dionísia Gonçalves Pinto, (Papari, atual Nísia Floresta, 12 de outubro de 1810 — Rouen, França, 24 de abril de 1885) foi uma educadora, escritora e poetisa brasileira mais conhecida como Nísia Floresta.
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Primeira na educação feminista no Brasil, com protagonismo nas letras, no jornalismo e nos movimentos sociais. Defensora de ideais abolicionistas, republicanos e principalmente feministas, de consciência antecipadora para sua época, influenciou a prática educacional brasileira, rompendo limites do lugar social destinado à mulher.
Capaz de estabelecer um diálogo entre ideias europeias e o contexto brasileiro no qual viveu, dedicou obras e ensinos sobre a condição feminina e foi considerada pionei -
Darcy Ribeiro
Darcy Ribeiro (Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil, October 26, 1922 – Brasilia, DF, Brazil, February 17, 1997) was a Brazilian anthropologist, author and politician. Darcy Ribeiro's ideas of Latin American identity have influenced several later scholars of Latin American studies. As Minister of Education of Brazil he caried out profound reforms which led him to be invited to participate in university reforms in Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico and Uruguay after leaving Brazil due to the 1964 coup d'état.
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Darcy Ribeiro was the son of Reginaldo Ribeiro dos Santos and of Josefina Augusta da Silveira. He completed his primary and secondary education in the town of his birth, Montes Claros, at the Grupo Escolar Gonçalves Chaves and at the Ginásio -
Lélia Gonzalez
Lélia Gonzalez foi uma ativista e intelectual negra; denunciou o racismo e o sexismo como formas de violência que subalternizam as mulheres negras.
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Nascida em Belo Horizonte, no dia 1° de fevereiro de 1935, mudou-se para o Rio de Janeiro, onde graduou-se em História e Geografia, fez mestrado em Comunicação e doutorado em Antropologia Política. Atuou como professora em escolas de nível médio, faculdades e universidades.
Iniciou o primeiro curso de Cultura Negra na Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (EAV). Para Lélia Gonzalez, o conceito de cultura deveria ser pensado em pluralidade e servir como elemento de conscientização política. Neste sentido, por meio do curso de Cultura Negra, propunha uma análise da contribuição africana na formação -
Michael Löwy
French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He is presently the emerited research director in social sciences at the CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research) and lectures at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS; Paris, France). Author of books on Karl Marx, Che Guevara, Liberation Theology, György Lukács, Walter Benjamin and Franz Kafka, he received the Silver Medal of the CNRS in 1994.
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Alan Pelaez Lopez
Alan Pelaez Lopez is a poet, and installation and adornment artist from Oaxaca, Mexico, and an assistant professor at the University of California, Davis. Their debut visual poetry collection, "Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien" (The Operating System, 2020), was a finalist for the 2020 International Latino Book Award. They are also the author of the chapbook "to love and mourn in the age of displacement" (Nomadic Press, 2020), and the editor of "When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent" (University of Arizona Press, 2023).
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Claudia Aboaf
Creció junto a su abuelo y maestro, Ulises Petit de Murat, quien la inició en la lectura y la escritura. La influencia del notable guionista y poeta, despertó en ella una pasión por las humanidades lo que le permitió desempeñarse en distintas actividades, fiel en todas ellas a sí misma. Colabora con un blog español sobre literatura argentina.
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Nelson Rodrigues
Nelson Falcão Rodrigues (August 23, 1912 – December 21, 1980) 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 (The Wedding Dress), considered revolutionary for the complex exploration of its characters' psychology and its use of colloquial dialog. He went on to write many other seminal plays and today is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest playwright.
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Nelson Rodrigues was born on August 23, 1912 in Recife, the capital of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, to Mario Rodrigues, a journalist, and his wife, Maria Esther Falcão. In 1916, the family moved to Rio de Janeiro after Mario ran into trouble for criticizing a powerful local politician. In Rio, -
Davi Kopenawa
Davi Kopenawa é xamã e líder político do povo Yanomami, presidente da Hutukara Associação Yanomami, ativista na defesa dos povos indígenas e da floresta amazônica, além de autor, roteirista, produtor cultural e palestrante. É uma das lideranças intelectuais, políticas e espirituais mais importantes no panorama contemporâneo de defesa dos povos originários, do meio ambiente, da diversidade cultural e dos direitos humanos, com reconhecimento nacional e internacional. É também autor da obra A queda do céu – palavras de um xamã yanomami (2010), em coautoria com o antropólogo francês Bruce Albert.
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Davi Kopenawa nasceu por volta de 1956 na vila Yanomami de Marakana, ao longo do alto do rio Toototobi, a poucos quilômetros da fronteira entre o estad -
Flávia Muniz
Flávia Muniz (Franca, 3 de setembro de 1956) é escritora e pedagoga brasileira dedicada à literatura para crianças, adolescentes e jovens adultos
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Ana Ojeda
Ana Ojeda nació en Buenos Aires en 1979.
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Bruna Surfistinha
Bruna Surfistinha (Portuguese for "Little Surfer Bruna") is the pen name of Raquel Pacheco, a Brazilian former sex worker who attracted the attention of Brazilian media and television by publishing, in a blog, her sexual experiences with clients. Bruna explained in television programs that she was a normal girl, who had been adopted by a high/middle-class family but that at around the age of 17 she left her home and her family because of the traditional family oriented views of her father and to start to live by her own.
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Bruna appeared in various television programs in Brazil and several periodicals and magazines. Her blog attracted more than 50,000 readers per day. She appeared in some pornographic films in Brazil.
In 2005, she released a bo -
Sidarta Ribeiro
SIDARTA RIBEIRO é mestre em biofísica pela UFRJ, doutor em comportamento animal pela Universidade Rockefeller, pós-doutor em neurofisiologia pela Universidade Duke, professor titular de neurociência e fundador do Instituto do Cérebro da UFRN. Formando do Grupo Capoeira Brasil, discípulo dos mestres Caxias e Paulinho Sabiá. Publicou mais de cem artigos científicos em periódicos internacionais. É autor, entre outros livros, de O oráculo da noite e Limiar, ambos publicados pela Companhia das Letras.
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Sally Grindley
I came into children's books originally as Editorial Director of a nationwide children's book club, though I had written and directed a children's play while a student at Sussex University, which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe. I wrote my first two children's picture books in 1984 and was lucky enough that Anthony Browne wanted to illustrate the second - Knock Knock Who's There? It was published in 1985, is still going strong today and is one of my most successful.
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Shhh! was published in 1991 and has known great success in France/Belgium in particular (close on 300,000 copies sold). It's success in the UK - it won the Children's Book Award - was hampered by the liquidation of its original publisher.
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Al Berto
Al Berto, pseudonym of Alberto Raposo Pidwell Tavares, was a poet, painter, editor and cultural worker.
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He was born in an high class burgeois family (with english origins from his grandmother). A year later he moved to Alentejo and in Sines he gets through all his childhood and teenagehood until his family sent him to the arts school António Arroio in Lisbon.
14th of April 1967, he went to study paiting in Belgium at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et des Arts Visuels, in Brussels.
After getting his degree, he decided to abandon painting in 1971 and get dedicated exclusively to writting. He comes back to Portugal at 17th November 1974 and at that time, writes his first book entirely in portuguese, Á procura do Vento num Jardim -
Jorge Grespan
Possui graduação em História pela Universidade de São Paulo (1982) , graduação em Economia pela Universidade de São Paulo (1980) , doutorado em Filosofia pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1994) , pos-doutorado pela Freie Universität Berlin (1997) e pos-doutorado pela Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (2008) . Atualmente é Professor Doutor da Universidade de São Paulo, Membro de corpo editorial da Revista do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros e Membro de corpo editorial da Beiträge zur Marx-Engels Forschung Neue Folge. Tem experiência na área de História , com ênfase em Teoria e Filosofia da História. Atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: Dialética, Crise, Crítica, Desmedida, Necessidade Relativa e Temporalidade.
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Carme Riera
Carme Riera pasó su infancia y adolescencia en Palma de Mallorca, hasta que en 1965 se fue a estudiar filología en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, por la que se licenció en 1970. Después se convirtió en catedrática de literatura española de su alma máter; es especialista en el siglo de oro y dirige también talleres de escritura.
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Publicó su primer libro, la recopilación de cuentos Te deix, amor, la mar com a penyora, en 1975 (el relato que le da título había ganado, en 1974 el premio Recull), seguido dos años después por otro del mismo género; su primera novela, Una primavera per a Domenico Guarini, recibió el Premio Prudenci Bertrana 1980 y salió a la venta al año siguiente.
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Oswald de Andrade
José Oswald de Andrade Souza (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian poet and polemicist. He was born and spent most of his life in São Paulo.
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Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism and a member of the Group of Five, along with Mário de Andrade, Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral and Menotti del Picchia. He participated in the Week of Modern Art (Semana de Arte Moderna).
Andrade is best known for his manifesto of Brazilian nationalism, Manifesto Antropófago (Cannibal Manifesto), published in 1928. Its argument is that Brazil's history of "cannibalizing" other cultures is its greatest strength, while playing on the modernists' primitivist interest in cannibalism as an alleged tribal rite. Cannibalism becomes a way -
Aníbal Quijano
Sociologist. Director of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIE) in Lima, directs the 'Anuario Mariateguiano "and is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University Binghmanton. He also taught at Columbia University, at UCLA in Berkeley, at Hanover and at the Universidad Autónoma de México.
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Specialist in the work of Jose Carlos Mariategui, has mostly studied theories on dependence, imperialism and has developed original research on Latin American culture and identity. Author of numerous essays on the transformation of agriculture, the peasant movements, and the process of urbanization in Latin America, has recently proposed the category of "coloniality of power" as key to understanding the modern world and system. -
Monteiro Lobato
José Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato (April 18, 1882 - July 4, 1948) was one of Brazil's most influential writers, mostly for his children's books set in the fictional Yellow Woodpecker Ranch but he had been previously a prolific writer of fiction, a translator and an art critic. He also founded one of Brazil's first publishing houses (Companhia Editora Nacional) and was a supporter of nationalism.
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Narcisa Amália
Narcisa Amália de Campos (São João da Barra-RJ, 3 de abril de 1852 — Rio de Janeiro, 24 de julho de 1924) foi tradutora, poeta, escritora, crítica literária, jornalista brasileira e professora.
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Foi a primeira mulher a trabalhar como jornalista profissional no Brasil, além de abolicionista, republicana e feminista. Movida por forte sensibilidade social, combateu a opressão da mulher e o regime escravista.
Segundo Sílvia Paixão, “um dos raros nomes femininos que falam de identidade nacional” e busca sua própria identidade “numa poética uterina que imprime o retorno ao lugar de origem”.
Colaborou na revista A leitura (1894-1896) e, bem a frente de seu tempo, escreveu muitos artigos de cunho feminista e republicano -
Raduan Nassar
Raduan Nassar is a Brazilian writer, son of Lebanese immigrants. He moved to São Paulo when he was a teenager and studied Law and Philosophy at one of the most important universities in Brazil, the University of São Paulo. In 1970, he wrote A Cup of Rage, published in 1978. His literature debut happened in 1975 when Ancient Tillage was released. The Brazilian cinema adapted both of his books. In 1997, Menina a Caminho, a book of short stories written during the 60’s and 70’s, was released, although Raduan stopped writing in 1984. There's plenty of strength and lyricism in his literature style.
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Brendan Keogh
Brendan Keogh, Research Fellow in the School of Communication at Queensland University of Technology, is the author of Killing Is Harmless: A Critical Reading of Spec Ops: The Line.
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Eugênio Bucci
Eugênio Bucci nasceu em Orlândia, São Paulo, em 1958. Formou-se em direito e jornalismo na Universidade de São Paulo. Foi editor da revista Teoria e Debate, diretor de redação das revistas Set, Superinteressante e Quatro Rodas, secretário editorial da Editora Abril, articulista da Folha de S.Paulo e colunista de O Estado de S. Paulo e Veja.
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Matilde Campilho
Matilde Campilho nasceu em Lisboa em 1982. No ano de 2010 foi viver para o Brasil, e desde então mora entre o Rio de Janeiro e Lisboa. Publicou poemas nos jornais brasileiros A Folha de São Paulo e O Globo, assim como em algumas revistas online.
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François Hartog
François Hartog is a French historian and Chair of Modern and Antique Historiography at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Born in 1946, Hartog attended the 'École normale supérieure. A former student of Jean-Pierre Vernant and assistant to Reinhart Koselleck, Hartog’s early work focused on the intellectual history of ancient Greece and historiography, while his recent work deals mainly with temporality.
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His most recent book to be published in English, Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time (Columbia University Press, 2015, translated by Saskia Brown), engages our “ways of relating to the past, present, and future.” Hartog also tackles the concept of “presentism,” or how we adhere to presen -
Grada Kilomba
Grada Kilomba is a interdisciplinary artist and writer, born in Lisbon and living in Berlin.
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Her work draws on memory, trauma, race, gender, and the decolonisation of knowledge: ‘who can speak?’ ‘what can we speak about?’ and ‘What happens when we speak?’ are three constant questions in Kilomba’s body of work. In her work, she intentionally creates a hybrid space between the academic and the artistic languages, and uses storytelling as a central element for her decolonial practices.
She is best known for her subversive and her unconventional use of artistic practices, in which she gives body, voice and image to her own text – what she describes as Performing Knowledge – using a variety of formats such as Publication, Performance, Staged Readi -
Alberto Giordano
Alberto Giordano was born in Rufino, in 1959, and has lived in Rosario since 1971. He is a professor and essayist.
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Guilherme Boulos
Guilherme Castro Boulos (São Paulo, 19 de junho de 1982) é um ativista político, político e escritor brasileiro, filiado ao Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL).
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É membro da Coordenação Nacional do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto (MTST), sendo reconhecido como uma das principais lideranças da esquerda no Brasil.
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Cidinha da Silva
Cidinha da Silva - nasceu em Belo Horizonte, em 1967, onde se graduou em História, pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Transferiu-se em seguida para São Paulo, com brilhante atuação no GELEDÉS - Instituto da Mulher Negra, organização não-governamental que chegou a presidir. A escritora possui forte engajamento com a causa negra e com questões ligadas às relações de gênero. Suas publicações encontram-se, assim, alinhadas a tais temáticas, no intuito de promover maior espaço de reflexão sobre as identidades tidas como subalternas. Em fevereiro de 2005, fundou o Instituto Kuanza, que tem por objetivos desenvolver projetos e ações nos campos da educação, ações afirmativas, pesquisa, comunicação, juventude e articulação comunitária. Todos
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João Antônio
João Antônio Ferreira Filho was a Brazilian journalist and short story writer, who became known for portraying the lives of marginalized people inhabiting the outskirts of large cities, such as bandits, workers, vagrants and malandros.
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Born into a family of small shopkeepers in a suburb of São Paulo, João Antônio worked in low paid jobs before releasing his first collection of short stories, Malagueta, Perus e Bacanaço, in 1963, for which he won several awards: two Jabuti Prizes (best new author and best book of short stories), the Prêmio Fabio Prado and the Prêmio Municipal da Cidade de São Paulo. The double Jabuti award was an unprecedented feat for a rookie writer. Malagueta was originally written in 1960 but the manuscript was destroyed