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  Valéria Piassa Polizzi

  Autora do livro “Depois Daquela Viagem - diário de bordo de uma jovem que aprendeu a viver com aids”, publicado em 1997, traduzido em vários países e adotado em escolas de toda a América Latina.
  
  Desde então, dou palestras por todo o Brasil sobre o tema "aids, superação e prevenção" em escolas, universidades e empresas.
  Contato para palestras: contato@parlante.com.br
  
  Formada em Comunicação Social (2007) com pós-graduação em Prática da Criação Literária (2010). Fui colunista da revista Atrevida por oito anos, trabalhei como repórter na Agência de Notícias da Aids e como freelancer para diversos impressos.
  
  Outras publicações
  "Papo de Garota” (2001)
  “Enquanto Estamos Crescendo” (2003)
  E participei das antologias de contos:
  “Grandes Amigos: Pais e Filh

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  Stephen King

  Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a ne

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  Yasunari Kawabata

  Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read today.
  Nobel Lecture: 1968
  http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prize...

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  Isaac Asimov

  Works of prolific Russian-American writer Isaac Asimov include popular explanations of scientific principles, The Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.
  
  Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.
  
  Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).
  
  People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire

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  Charles Burns

  Charles Burns is an American cartoonist and illustrator.
  Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His comic book work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly magazine 'RAW' in the mid-1980s. Nowadays, Burns is best known for the horror/coming of age graphic novel Black Hole, originally serialised in twelve issues between 1995 and 2004. The story was eventually collected in one volume by Pantheon Books and received Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz awards in 2005. His following works X'ed Out (2010), The Hive (2012), Sugar Skull (2014), Last Look (2016) and Last Cut (2024) have also been published by Pantheon Books, although the latter was first released in France as a series of three French comic albums.
  As an illustrator, Charles Bur

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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.
  Machado's works had a great influence on Brazilian literary schools of the late 19th century and 20th century. José Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, Susan Sontag and Harold Bloom are among his admirers and Bloom calls him "the supreme black literary artist to date."
  
  

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  Clarice Lispector

  Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, she was brought to Brazil as an infant, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War.
  
  She grew up in northeastern Brazil, where her mother died when she was nine. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio she began publishing her first journalistic work and short stories, catapulting to fame at age 23 with the publication of her first novel, 'Near to the Wild Heart' (Perto do Coração Selvagem), written as an interior monologue in a style and language that was considered re

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  Milton Hatoum

  Milton Hatoum nasceu em 1952, em Manaus (Amazonas), onde passou a infância e uma parte da juventude. Em 1967 mudou-se para Brasília, onde estudou no Colégio de Aplicação da UnB. Morou durante a década de 1970 em São Paulo, onde se diplomou em arquitetura na Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da USP, trabalhou como jornalista cultural e foi professor universitário de História da Arquitetura. Em 1980 viajou como bolsista para a Espanha, onde morou em Madri e Barcelona. Depois passou três anos em Paris, onde estudou literatura comparada na Sorbonne (Paris III). Autor de quatro romances premiados, sua obra foi traduzida em dez línguas e publicada em catorze países.
  Foi professor de literatura francesa da Universidade Federal do Amazonas (1984-

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  Marcelo Rubens Paiva

  Escritor, dramaturgo e jornalista, estudou na Escola de Comunicações e Artes da USP, freqüentou o mestrado de Teoria Literária da Unicamp e o King Fellow Program da Universidade de Stanford, na Califórnia.
  
  Publicou cinco romances: Feliz ano velho (1982, Prêmio Jabuti), Blecaute (1986), Uabrari (1990), Bala na agulha (1992) e Não és tu, Brasil (1996). Publicou também o livro de crônicas As Fêmeas (1994). Foi traduzido para o inglês, espanhol, francês, italiano, alemão e tcheco. Como dramaturgo, escreveu: 525 linhas (1989); O predador entra na sala (1997); Da boca pra fora; e aí, comeu? (1999, Prêmo Shell); Mais-que-imperfeito (2000); Closet Show (2001); e No retrovisor (2002).

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  José de Alencar

  José 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. He wrote some works under pen name Erasmo.
  He is patron of the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
  
  José de Alencar was born in what is today the bairro of Messejana on May 1, 1829, to priest (and later senator) José Martiniano Pereira de Alencar and his cousin Ana Josefina de Alencar. Moving to São Paulo in 1844, he graduated in Law at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo in 1850 and starts to follow his lawyer career at Rio de Janeiro. Invited

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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.
  
  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).
  
  Her works, in particular the 2003 novel Ponciá Vicêncio, address themes such as racial, gende

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  Mark Fisher

  Mark Fisher (1968 – 2017) was a co-founder of Zero Books and Repeater Books. His blog, k-punk, defined critical writing for a generation. He wrote three books, Capitalist Realism, Ghosts of My Life and The Weird and the Eerie, and was a Visiting Fellow in the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths, University of London.
  
  Librarian’s note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

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  Amanda Palmer

  Amanda Palmer is a performer, director, composer and musician who is best known for her role as front woman and keyboardist for internationally acclaimed punk cabaret band The Dresden Dolls. In 2008, Amanda released Who Killed Amanda Palmer, her debut solo album which was produced by Ben Folds. Current projects include a fine art photography book on which she is collaborating with esteemed author Neil Gaiman and a WKAP companion songbook, as well as a WKAP DVD (out 6/16/09). Amanda recently wrapped up a year-long tour that took her through sold out performances in Europe, the US, Australia, & New Zealand and most recently her epic set at Coachella. Live highlights of the last year include two epic performances with the Boston Pops at Sympho

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  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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  Ana Beatriz Barbosa Silva

  Médica graduada pela UERJ (Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro) com residência em psiquiatria pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Curso de Avaliação e Tratamento em Psiquiatria no Departamento de Psiquiatria da University of Chicago Hospitals, sob a supervisão do Dr. Elliot Gershon e Dra. Deborah Spitz. Membro da Academia de Ciências de New York e Professora Honoris Causa pela UniFMU (SP)
  
  Entre 2008 e 2009, prestou consultoria à Gloria Perez, na novela Caminho das Índias, para a construção da personagem Yvone, uma psicopata vivida pela atriz Letícia Sabatella.
  
  Consultora do Programa Mais Você (Rede Globo), desde 2009, em assuntos relacionados ao comportamento humano e do Programa Sem Censura (TV Brasil), desde 1996.
  
  Ministr

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  Valéria Piassa Polizzi

  Autora do livro “Depois Daquela Viagem - diário de bordo de uma jovem que aprendeu a viver com aids”, publicado em 1997, traduzido em vários países e adotado em escolas de toda a América Latina.
  
  Desde então, dou palestras por todo o Brasil sobre o tema "aids, superação e prevenção" em escolas, universidades e empresas.
  Contato para palestras: contato@parlante.com.br
  
  Formada em Comunicação Social (2007) com pós-graduação em Prática da Criação Literária (2010). Fui colunista da revista Atrevida por oito anos, trabalhei como repórter na Agência de Notícias da Aids e como freelancer para diversos impressos.
  
  Outras publicações
  "Papo de Garota” (2001)
  “Enquanto Estamos Crescendo” (2003)
  E participei das antologias de contos:
  “Grandes Amigos: Pais e Filh

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  Manuel Antônio de Almeida

  Manuel Antônio de Almeida (November 17, 1831 — November 28, 1861) was a Brazilian writer, medician and teacher. He is famous for the book Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias, written under the pen name Um Brasileiro (English: A Brazilian). He is the patron of the 28th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
  
  de Almeida was born in Rio de Janeiro, to lieutenant Antônio de Almeida and Josefina Maria de Almeida. Few things are known about his years of primary studies — although he entered at the Medicine course in 1849, graduating in 1855. Financial difficulties inspired him to dedicate himself to the literature and to the journalism. His magnum opus, Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias, was initially published in serial form during the years

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  Raphael Montes

  Lawyer and writer Raphael Montes was born in 1990, in Rio de Janeiro. His short stories have been published in several mystery anthologies, as well as magazines.
  
  At the age of 20, he impressed critics and public alike with Roulette (Editora Benvirá), an action-packed crime novel that was a finalist in the 2010 Benvirá Literature Prize, the Brazilian National Library’s 2012 Machado de Assis Prize and the prestigious 2013 São Paulo Literature Prize, and has sold over 15 thousand copies.
  
  At 24, he published his second novel, Perfect Days (Companhia das Letras), which has been phenomenally successful: translation rights have been sold to 13 territories (USA, Canada, England, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, Holland, Macau, Hong K

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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.
  
  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.
  
  In May 2016, she was a

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  Carla Madeira

  Carla Madeira nasceu em Belo Horizonte. Largou o curso de matemática e se formou em jornalismo e publicidade. Foi professora de redação publicitária na Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais e é diretora de criação da agência de comunicação Lápis Raro. Em 2014, lançou seu primeiro romance, “Tudo é rio”, um sucesso editorial, recebido com entusiasmo pelo público e pela crítica.

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  Aline Bei

  Aline Bei nasceu em São Paulo, em 1987. É formada em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo e em Artes Cênicas pelo Teatro Escola Célia-Helena. É editora e colunista do site cultural OitavaArte. O peso do pássaro morto é o seu primeiro livro.

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  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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  Eva Muñoz

  Eva Muñoz es una escritora colombiana que empezó su carrera en Wattpad, donde superó las 220 millones de lecturas con su trilogía “Pecados Placenteros”.

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  Yukinobu Tatsu

  aka 龍幸伸. (Tatsu Yukinobu), mangaka author of Dan Da Dan, Fire Ball! and Seigi no Rokugou.

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