Carlos Heitor Cony was a Brazilian journalist and writer. He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (Portuguese: Academia Brasileira de Letras).
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.
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
Júlio César Ribeiro Vaughan (April 16, 1845 – November 1, 1890) was a Brazilian Naturalist novelist, philologist, journalist and grammarian. He is famous for his controversial romance A Carne and for designing the flag of the State of São Paulo, which he wanted to be the flag of Brazil.
He is patron of the 24th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
José Murilo de Carvalho é um cientista político e historiador brasileiro, membro desde 2005 da Academia Brasileira de Letras. Junto com o jurista e professor Celso Lafer, é o único historiador brasileiro a ser membro dessa Academia e também da Academia Brasileira de Ciências.
Professor da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais e do IUPERJ por vinte anos, é também professor titular de História do Brasil no Departamento de História do Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
José Murilo de Carvalho é o sexto ocupante da Cadeira 5 da Academia Brasileira de Letras, eleito em 11 de março de 2004, na sucessão de Rachel de Queiroz. Foi recepcionado em 10 de setembro de 2004 pelo acadêmico Affonso Arinos de M
