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Orígenes Lessa

Orígenes Lessa (Lençóis Paulista, 12 de julho de 1903 — Rio de Janeiro, 13 de julho de 1986) foi um jornalista, contista, novelista, romancista e ensaísta brasileiro, e imortal da Academia Brasileira de Letras.

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Chuck Palahniuk

Written in stolen moments under truck chassis and on park benches to a soundtrack of The Downward Spiral and Pablo Honey, Fight Club came into existence. The adaptation of Fight Club was a flop at the box office, but achieved cult status on DVD. The film’s popularity drove sales of the novel. Chuck put out two novels in 1999, Survivor and Invisible Monsters. Choke, published in 2001, became Chuck’s first New York Times bestseller. Chuck’s work has always been infused with personal experience, and his next novel, Lullaby, was no exception. Chuck credits writing Lullaby with helping him cope with the tragic death of his father. Diary and the non-fiction guide to Portland, Fugitives and Refugees, were released in 2003. While on the road in sup

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Alan Moore

Alan Moore is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD.

As a comics writer, Moore is notable for being one of the first writers to apply literary and formalist sensibilities to the mainstream of the medium. As well as including challenging subject matter and adult themes, he brings a wide range of influences to his work, from the literary–authors such as William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Anton Wilson and Iain Sincla

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Alexandre Dumas

This note regards Alexandre Dumas, père, the father of Alexandre Dumas, fils (son). For the son, see Alexandre Dumas fils.

Alexandre Dumas père, born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a towering figure of 19th-century French literature whose historical novels and adventure tales earned global renown. Best known for The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and other swashbuckling epics, Dumas crafted stories filled with daring heroes, dramatic twists, and vivid historical backdrops. His works, often serialized and immensely popular with the public, helped shape the modern adventure genre and remain enduring staples of world literature.
Dumas was the son of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a celebrated general in Revolutionary France a

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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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Luis Fernando Verissimo

Nascido em Porto Alegre e filho do também escritor Érico Verissimo, Luis Fernando Verissimo (Luís Veríssimo, na ortografia legal) é famoso por suas crônicas cheias de ironia humorística. Além de escritor, ele também é jornalista, publicitário, cartunista e tradutor. Entre suas paixões, estão a família, o time de paixão, Internacional de Porto Alegre, e o jazz sendo praticamente inseparável de seu saxofone.
Seus amigos o definem como "uma pessoa que fala escrevendo". Em público, ele é tímido e de forma alguma aparenta ser o autor de seus irreverentes textos. É considerado o escritor que mais vende livros no Brasil.

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José Mauro de Vasconcelos

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 Janeiro.[citation needed] There he worked as a boxing instructor and even as a painter's model.

José iniciated his literature with the novel Banana Brava. His greatest success was his novel Meu Pé de Laranja Lima, that tells about his own personal experiences and the shocks he suffered in his childhood with the abrupt changes of life.

José was part Indian and part Portuguese. He passed his childhood in Natal. When he was 9 years old, he learned to swim, and with

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Fernando Sabino

Fernando Sabino (October 12, 1923 - October 11, 2004) 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.
Sabino was the author of 50 books, as well as many short stories and essays. His first book was published in 1941, when he was just 18 years old. Sabino vaulted to national and international fame in 1956 with the novel A Time to Meet, the tale of three friends in the inland city of Belo Horizonte. The book was inspired by Sabino's life history.
Sabino also enjoyed commercial success with The Great Insane and The Naked Man, which were made into films.
Sabino considered friendship to be one of the most important things in life. His circle

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Jorge Amado

Jorge Amado was a modernist Brazilian writer. He remains one of the most read and translated Brazilian authors, second only to Paulo Coelho. In his style of fictional novelist, however, there is no parallel in Brazil. His work was further popularized by highly successful film and TV adaptations.
He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1961 until his death in 2001. In 1994, his work was recognized with the Camões Prize, the most prestigious award in Portuguese literature.
His literary work presents two distinct phases. In the first, there is a clear social critic and political focus, with works such as Captains of the Sands and Sea of Death standing out.
In his more mature phase, he adopts an aspect of good-humored and sensual

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Robert Fisher

One of the most prolific of sitcom writers, Fisher began in television the 1950s by pairing up with a veteran radio writer twenty-five years his senior named Alan Lipscott. Lipscott and Fisher wrote the first episode of the CBS-TV sitcom series Make Room For Daddy (starring Danny Thomas) in 1953, and went on to craft teleplays for The Donna Reed Show, Bachelor Father (which starred John Forsythe), Bronco, How to Marry a Millionaire, and others. Following Lipscott’s death in 1961, Fisher then began writing with Arthur Marx, and that partnership (which lasted for over twenty-five years) produced episodes of McHale's Navy, My Three Sons, The Mothers-in-Law, the short lived ABC-TV series The Paul Lynde Show, and NBC-TV's Life With Lucy in 1986.

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João Guimarães Rosa

João Guimarães Rosa (27 June 1908 - 19 November 1967) was a Brazilian novelist, considered by many to be one of the greatest Brazilian novelists born in the 20th century. His best-known work is the novel Grande Sertão: Veredas (translated as The Devil to Pay in the Backlands). Some people consider this to be the Brazilian equivalent of Ulysses.

Guimarães Rosa was born in Cordisburgo in the state of Minas Gerais, the first of six children of Florduardo Pinto Rosa (nicknamed "seu Fulô") and D. Francisca Guimarães Rosa ("Chiquitinha").
He was self-taught in many areas and from childhood studied many languages, starting with French before he was seven years old.
Still a child, he moved to his grandparents' house in Belo Horizonte, where he finishe

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Ariano Suassuna

Ariano Suassuna (born João Pessoa, 1927) is a Brazilian playwright and author. He is in the "Movemento Amorial". He founded the Student Theater at Federal University of Pernambuco. Four of his plays have been filmed and he is considered one of Brazil's greatest living playwrights. He is also an important regional writer doing various novels set in the Northeast of Brazil. He received an honorary doctorate at a ceremony performed at a circus. He is the author of, among other works, the "Auto da Compadecida" and "A Pedra do Reino". He is a staunch defender of the culture of the Northeast, and his works deal with the popular culture of the Northeast.

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Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).

His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simpl

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Graciliano Ramos

Graciliano Ramos was widely considered one of the most important Brazilian authors of the 20th century. He was a seminal voice in the literary "regionalism" movement.
As a child Ramos lived in many cities of Northeastern Brazil, stricken by poverty and severe weather conditions (droughts). After high-school, Graciliano went to Rio de Janeiro where he worked as a journalist. In 1915 he traveled to Palmeira dos Indios, state of Alagoas, to live with his father and in 1927 he was elected mayor.
In 1933 he published his first book, Caetés. A few years later he was jailed by the Getúlio Vargas government, on a charge that was never made clear. His experiences in jail would become a unique personal deposition, Memórias do Cárcere.
Graciliano died in

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Nikolai Gogol

People consider that Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842).

Ukrainian birth, heritage, and upbringing of Gogol influenced many of his written works among the most beloved in the tradition of Russian-language literature. Most critics see Gogol as the first Russian realist. His biting satire, comic realism, and descriptions of Russian provincials and petty bureaucrats influenced later Russian masters Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and especially Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Gogol wittily said many later Russian maxims.

Gogol first used the techniques of surrealism and the grotesque in his works The Nose , Viy ,

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Mário de Andrade

Mário 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 (Hallucinated City) in 1922. He has had an enormous influence on Brazilian literature in the 20th and 21st centuries, and as a scholar and essayist—he was a pioneer of the field of ethnomusicology—his influence has reached far beyond Brazil.
Andrade was the central figure in the avant-garde movement of São Paulo for twenty years. Trained as a musician and best known as a poet and novelist, Andrade was personally involved in virtually every discipline that was connected with São Paulo moder

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George R.R. Martin

George Raymond Richard "R.R." Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two sisters, Darleen Martin Lapinski and Janet Martin Patten.

Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and Marist High School. He began writing very young, selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies, dramatic readings included. Later he became a comic book fan and collector in high school, and began to write fiction for comic fanzines (amateur fan magazines). Martin's first professional sale was made in 1970 at age 21: The Hero, sold to Galaxy, published in February, 1971 issue. Other sales followed.

In 1970 Martin received a

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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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Orígenes Lessa

Orígenes Lessa (Lençóis Paulista, 12 de julho de 1903 — Rio de Janeiro, 13 de julho de 1986) foi um jornalista, contista, novelista, romancista e ensaísta brasileiro, e imortal da Academia Brasileira de Letras.

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Luiz Puntel

Luiz Puntel (Guaxupé, 2 de abril de 1949) é um escritor brasileiro conhecido pelos livros que escreveu para a série Vaga-Lume.[1] É formado em Letras, com especialização em francês, e leciona cursos de Comunicação Verbal.[2] Seu livro O Grito do Hip Hop foi indicado ao Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura Juvenil em 2005

Luiz Puntel nasceu em Guaxupé. Ainda criança, mudou-se para São José do Rio Pardo, SP, assim como várias outras cidades.[carece de fontes] Na adolescência foi para Ribeirão Preto, SP, onde foi alfabetizado e se graduou[carece de fontes]. Puntel quando jovem decidiu ser um padre, chegando até a entrar no seminário, mas depois desistiu[carece de fontes]. Seu primeiro emprego foi como office boy, passando, depois, a escriturário, auxili

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José Saramago

José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which have been seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today."

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Maria José Dupré

Maria José Dupré, ou Sra. Leandro Dupré como assinava em seus livros (Ribeirão Claro, PR, 1 de maio de 1898 - Guarujá, SP, 15 de maio de 1984) foi uma escritora brasileira.

Nascida na fazenda Bela Vista, na época município de Botucatu, hoje município de Ribeirão Claro no Paraná por estar muito próxima da divisa entre São Paulo e Paraná, Maria José foi alfabetizada pela mãe e seu irmão. Ainda em Botucatu, estudou pintura e música. Mudou-se para a cidade de São Paulo, onde cursou a Escola Normal Caetano de Campos, formando-se professora. Sua vida na literatura começa após casar com o engenheiro Leandro Dupré. Foi contemporânea de nomes como Érico Veríssimo, José Lins do Rego e Viana Moog, numa época em que as mulheres intelectuais apenas come

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Aluísio Azevedo

Era filho do português David Gonçalves de Azevedo e de Emília Amália Pinto de Magalhães. Seu pai era viúvo e a mãe era separada do marido, algo que configurava grande escândalo na sociedade da época. Foi irmão do dramaturgo e jornalista Artur Azevedo.

Desde cedo dedicou-se ao desenho através de caricaturas e à pintura. Em 1876 viaja ao Rio de Janeiro, a fim de estudar Belas Artes, obtendo desde então sustento com seus desenhos para jornais.

Com o falecimento do pai em 1879, volta para o Maranhão, onde começa finalmente a escrever. E em 1881, publica O Mulato, obra que choca a sociedade pela sua forma crua ao desnudar a questão racial. O autor já era abolicionista convicto.

O sucesso desta habilita-o a voltar para a Capital do Império, onde esc

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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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José de Santa Rita Durão

José de Santa Rita Durão (1722–1784), orator and poet, could be considered the creator of 'Indianism' in Brazil. His epic poem Caramuru is the first work to treat the native inhabitants of Brazil as its theme. Written in the style of Camões, Caramuru imitates classical poets.

Durão, who became priest of the Augustinian order, was born near Mariana, Minas Gerais. He was educated at the Jesuit College in Rio de Janeiro until age ten and the following year left for Portugal. There he was awarded a doctorate in theology and philology at the University of Coimbra, in the city of Coimbra, Portugal, where he subsequently became a member of the faculty.
But during the Marquis of Pombal government in Portugal, Durão was persecuted and left Portugal fo

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Luiz Puntel

Luiz Puntel (Guaxupé, 2 de abril de 1949) é um escritor brasileiro conhecido pelos livros que escreveu para a série Vaga-Lume.[1] É formado em Letras, com especialização em francês, e leciona cursos de Comunicação Verbal.[2] Seu livro O Grito do Hip Hop foi indicado ao Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura Juvenil em 2005

Luiz Puntel nasceu em Guaxupé. Ainda criança, mudou-se para São José do Rio Pardo, SP, assim como várias outras cidades.[carece de fontes] Na adolescência foi para Ribeirão Preto, SP, onde foi alfabetizado e se graduou[carece de fontes]. Puntel quando jovem decidiu ser um padre, chegando até a entrar no seminário, mas depois desistiu[carece de fontes]. Seu primeiro emprego foi como office boy, passando, depois, a escriturário, auxili

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José de Santa Rita Durão

José de Santa Rita Durão (1722–1784), orator and poet, could be considered the creator of 'Indianism' in Brazil. His epic poem Caramuru is the first work to treat the native inhabitants of Brazil as its theme. Written in the style of Camões, Caramuru imitates classical poets.

Durão, who became priest of the Augustinian order, was born near Mariana, Minas Gerais. He was educated at the Jesuit College in Rio de Janeiro until age ten and the following year left for Portugal. There he was awarded a doctorate in theology and philology at the University of Coimbra, in the city of Coimbra, Portugal, where he subsequently became a member of the faculty.
But during the Marquis of Pombal government in Portugal, Durão was persecuted and left Portugal fo

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