Gil Vicente
Gil Vicente, called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus" and often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama." Vicente worked in Portuguese as much as he worked in Spanish and is thus, with Juan del Encina, considered joint-father of Spanish drama.
Vicente was attached to the courts of the Portuguese kings Manuel I and John III. He rose to prominence as a playwright largely on account of the influence of Queen Dowager Leonor, who noticed him as he participated in court dramas and subsequently commissioned him to write his first theatrical work.
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Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, born Vaimboult was a French teacher, journalist and writer. She is the author of many classic tales for children and youth.
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João Cabral de Melo Neto
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.
He worked as a diplomat for most of his life.
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Luís de Camões
Luís Vaz de Camões (Portuguese pronunciation: [luˈiʃ vaʃ dɨ kaˈmõȷ̃ʃ]; sometimes rendered in English as Camoens; c. 1524 – June 10, 1580) is considered Portugal's, and the Portuguese language's, greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil, and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry (in Portuguese and in Spanish) and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads). His recollection of poetry The Parnasum of Luís de Camões was lost in his lifetime.
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Maria Alberta Menéres
Maria Alberta Menéres nasceu em 1930, em Vila Nova de Gaia. Tem uma vasta obra poética, estando representada em várias antologias literárias nacionais e estrangeiras. Foi professora dos Ensinos Básico e Secundário nas disciplinas de Língua Portuguesa e História. É autora de inúmeros programas televisivos para crianças, tendo sido Diretora do Departamento de Programas Infantis e Juvenis da RTP de 1974 a 1986. Publicou mais de 69 livros para crianças (contos, poesia, BD, teatro e novela). Em 1986, recebeu o Grande Prémio Calouste Gulbenkian de Literatura para Crianças "pelo conjunto da sua obra literária e pela manutenção de um alto nível de qualidade".
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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.
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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 -
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 -
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.
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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.
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José Jorge Letria
JOSÉ JORGE LETRIA nasceu em Cascais, a 8 de Junho de 1951. Estudou Direito e História e é pós-graduado em Jornalismo Internacional. Com dezenas de livros publicados em diversas áreas, foi distinguido com importantes prémios literários nacionais e internacionais. É um dos mais destacados nomes da literatura infanto-juvenil em Portugal e autor de programas de rádio e televisão. Está traduzido em várias línguas.
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Integrou, com José Afonso, Adriano e Manuel Freire, entre outros, o movimento da canção de resistência, tendo sido agraciado em 1997 com a Ordem da Liberdade.
Foi, durante oito anos, vereador da Cultura da Câmara de Cascais. É, desde Janeiro de 2011, Presidente da Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores.
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Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER ANDERSEN nasceu no Porto, a 6 de Novembro de 1919. Entre 1936 e 1939 frequentou o curso de Filologia Clássica na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, que não concluiu. Foi Presidente da Assembleia Geral da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores e Deputada à Assembleia Constituinte, pelo Partido Socialista (1975). A sua obra reparte-se pela ficção e pela poesia, embora seja nesta última que a sua inspiração clássica dá ao seu verso uma dimensão solar e luminosa, que permite ouvir nitidamente a palavra com todo o peso da sua musicalidade limpa, ao encontro do modelo clássico. Entre as suas obras poéticas contam-se Coral (1950), Mar Novo (1958), Livro Sexto (1962), Geografia (1967), Navegações (1983), Ilhas (1989
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Maria Teresa Maia Gonzalez
Maria Teresa Maia Gonzalez nasceu em Coimbra, em 1958. É licenciada em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas – Variante de Estudos Franceses e Ingleses – pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Vive em Lisboa e tem como passatempo a pintura.
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Foi professora de Português, Inglês e Francês, no ensino particular e público, entre 1982 e 1997, em Alverca do Ribatejo, Manique e Lisboa.
Muito cedo sentiu despertar o gosto pelas histórias ouvidas e lidas em família. Por volta dos nove anos, começou a sentir o gosto pela escrita, escrevendo poemas e histórias com regularidade. Iniciou a sua carreira na escrita em 1989, quando ainda era professora.
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Álvares de Azevedo
Alvares de Azevedo was a writer of the second brazilian romantic generation, also called Byronian generation. He spent his childhood in Rio de Janeiro where he began his studies. He came back to Sao Paulo to start on his Law School where he became known for his brilliant writings. He had the ability to learn languages easily and was recognized for his young and sentimental spirit. He couldn't finish his law school because of the tuberculosis he had, many times proclaimed as the disease of the century since many authors of this age died of it, although what actually came to kill him was the horse fall by his twenties.
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Luís de Sttau Monteiro
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He comes back in 1943 at the time his father was fired by Salazar.
Sttau Monteiro got an advocate degree in Lisbon and only practiced his profession for a short amount of time.
He leaves again to London, becaming a Formula 2 racer.
He comes back to Portugal and be part on numerous publications, as Almanaque magazine or A mosca in Lisbon's Diary.
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Virginia Woolf
(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
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During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." -
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a poet and writer.
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It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they h -
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.
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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.
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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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Graciliano Ramos
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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.
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Álvares de Azevedo
Alvares de Azevedo was a writer of the second brazilian romantic generation, also called Byronian generation. He spent his childhood in Rio de Janeiro where he began his studies. He came back to Sao Paulo to start on his Law School where he became known for his brilliant writings. He had the ability to learn languages easily and was recognized for his young and sentimental spirit. He couldn't finish his law school because of the tuberculosis he had, many times proclaimed as the disease of the century since many authors of this age died of it, although what actually came to kill him was the horse fall by his twenties.
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Luís de Camões
Luís Vaz de Camões (Portuguese pronunciation: [luˈiʃ vaʃ dɨ kaˈmõȷ̃ʃ]; sometimes rendered in English as Camoens; c. 1524 – June 10, 1580) is considered Portugal's, and the Portuguese language's, greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil, and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry (in Portuguese and in Spanish) and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads). His recollection of poetry The Parnasum of Luís de Camões was lost in his lifetime.
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Camilo Castelo Branco
«Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo Branco (1825-1890) foi um dos escritores mais prolíferos e marcantes da literatura portuguesa contemporânea tendo sido romancista, cronista, crítico, dramaturgo, historiador, poeta e tradutor. Teve uma vida atribulada, que lhe serviu muitas vezes de inspiração para as suas novelas. Foi o primeiro escritor de língua portuguesa a viver exclusivamente do que escrevia. Durante quase 40 anos, entre 1851 e 1890, escreveu à pena, logo sem qualquer ajuda mecânica, mais de duzentas e sessenta obras, com a média superior a 6 por ano. Prolífico e fecundo escritor, deixou obras de referência na literatura lusitana. Apesar de toda essa fecundidade, Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo Branco não permitiu que a intensa produçã
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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.
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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 -
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER ANDERSEN nasceu no Porto, a 6 de Novembro de 1919. Entre 1936 e 1939 frequentou o curso de Filologia Clássica na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, que não concluiu. Foi Presidente da Assembleia Geral da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores e Deputada à Assembleia Constituinte, pelo Partido Socialista (1975). A sua obra reparte-se pela ficção e pela poesia, embora seja nesta última que a sua inspiração clássica dá ao seu verso uma dimensão solar e luminosa, que permite ouvir nitidamente a palavra com todo o peso da sua musicalidade limpa, ao encontro do modelo clássico. Entre as suas obras poéticas contam-se Coral (1950), Mar Novo (1958), Livro Sexto (1962), Geografia (1967), Navegações (1983), Ilhas (1989
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 -
Luís de Sttau Monteiro
At the age of 10, he left to London, with his father, which was a portuguese ambasssador.
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He comes back in 1943 at the time his father was fired by Salazar.
Sttau Monteiro got an advocate degree in Lisbon and only practiced his profession for a short amount of time.
He leaves again to London, becaming a Formula 2 racer.
He comes back to Portugal and be part on numerous publications, as Almanaque magazine or A mosca in Lisbon's Diary.
In 1961 he published the play Felizmente há Luar! (engl: Finally there is Moonlight!), being distinguished with the Theater's price. The play was censured and prohibited by the fascist regime.
Only in 1978, the above play was annouced in the Nacional Theater. 160 000 copies were sold.
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António Vieira
Notável prosador e o mais conhecido orador religioso português, o Padre António Vieira nasceu em 1608, em Lisboa, e faleceu na Baía em 1697. Aos seis anos vai para o Brasil com os pais e fixa-se na Baía.
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Em 1623 inicia o noviciado na Companhia de Jesus. Ordena-se sacerdote em 1635, exerce as funções de pregador nas aldeias baianas e começa a granjear notoriedade como pregador.
Os primeiros sermões já reflectem as preocupações sócio-políticas de Vieira porquanto a colónia da Baía lutava contra as invasões dos holandeses. Em 1641, restaurada a independência, regressa a Portugal e cativa o favor de D. João IV. Por isso, inicia em 1646 missões diplomáticas na Europa. Volta ao Brasil em 1653, para o estado do Maranhão, depois de se envolver em q -
Maria Alberta Menéres
Maria Alberta Menéres nasceu em 1930, em Vila Nova de Gaia. Tem uma vasta obra poética, estando representada em várias antologias literárias nacionais e estrangeiras. Foi professora dos Ensinos Básico e Secundário nas disciplinas de Língua Portuguesa e História. É autora de inúmeros programas televisivos para crianças, tendo sido Diretora do Departamento de Programas Infantis e Juvenis da RTP de 1974 a 1986. Publicou mais de 69 livros para crianças (contos, poesia, BD, teatro e novela). Em 1986, recebeu o Grande Prémio Calouste Gulbenkian de Literatura para Crianças "pelo conjunto da sua obra literária e pela manutenção de um alto nível de qualidade".
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Eça de Queirós
José Maria Eça de Queirós was a novelist committed to social reform who introduced naturalism and realism to Portugal. He is often considered to be the greatest Portuguese novelist, certainly the leading 19th-century Portuguese novelist whose fame was international. The son of a prominent magistrate, Eça de Queiroz spent his early years with relatives and was sent to boarding school at the age of five. After receiving his degree in law in 1866 from the University of Coimbra, where he read widely French, he settled in Lisbon. There his father, who had since married Eça de Queiroz' mother, made up for past neglect by helping the young man make a start in the legal profession. Eça de Queiroz' real interest lay in literature, however, and soon
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Almeida Garrett
João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett e mais tarde 1.º Visconde de Almeida Garrett, (Porto, 4 de fevereiro de 1799 — Lisboa, 9 de dezembro de 1854) foi um escritor e dramaturgo romântico, orador, par do reino, ministro e secretário de estado honorário português.
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Grande impulsionador do teatro em Portugal, uma das maiores figuras do romantismo português, foi ele quem propôs a edificação do Teatro Nacional de D. Maria II e a criação do Conservatório de Arte Dramática.
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João Aguiar
JOÃO AGUIAR nasceu em 28 de Outubro de 1943. Licenciado em Jornalismo pela Universidade Livre de Bruxelas, trabalhou nos centros de turismo de Portugal em Bruxelas e Amesterdão, regressando a Lisboa e à carreira jornalística em 1976. Foi assessor do Ministro da Qualidade de Vida, no VII Governo Constitucional (1982-83). Foi autor da reportagem Uma Incursão pelo Esoterismo Português (1983) e dos romances A Voz dos Deuses (1984), O Homem Sem Nome (1986), O Trono do Altíssimo (1988), O Canto dos Fantasmas (1990), Os Comedores de Pérolas (1992), A Hora de Sertório (1994), A Encomendação das Almas (Prémio Eça de Queiroz, 1995), O Navegador Solitário (1996), Inês de Portugal(1997), O Dragão de Fumo (1998), A Catedral Verde (2000), Diálogo das Com
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Camilo Castelo Branco
«Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo Branco (1825-1890) foi um dos escritores mais prolíferos e marcantes da literatura portuguesa contemporânea tendo sido romancista, cronista, crítico, dramaturgo, historiador, poeta e tradutor. Teve uma vida atribulada, que lhe serviu muitas vezes de inspiração para as suas novelas. Foi o primeiro escritor de língua portuguesa a viver exclusivamente do que escrevia. Durante quase 40 anos, entre 1851 e 1890, escreveu à pena, logo sem qualquer ajuda mecânica, mais de duzentas e sessenta obras, com a média superior a 6 por ano. Prolífico e fecundo escritor, deixou obras de referência na literatura lusitana. Apesar de toda essa fecundidade, Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo Branco não permitiu que a intensa produçã
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Almeida Garrett
João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett e mais tarde 1.º Visconde de Almeida Garrett, (Porto, 4 de fevereiro de 1799 — Lisboa, 9 de dezembro de 1854) foi um escritor e dramaturgo romântico, orador, par do reino, ministro e secretário de estado honorário português.
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Grande impulsionador do teatro em Portugal, uma das maiores figuras do romantismo português, foi ele quem propôs a edificação do Teatro Nacional de D. Maria II e a criação do Conservatório de Arte Dramática.
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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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Joaquim Manuel de Macedo
Joaquim Manuel de Macedo (June 24, 1820 — April 11, 1882) was a Brazilian novelist, medician, teacher, playwright and journalist, famous for the romance A Moreninha.
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He is the patron of the 20th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Joaquim Manuel de Macedo was born in the city of Itaboraí, in 1820, to Severino de Macedo Carvalho and Benigna Catarina da Conceição. Graduated in Medicine in 1844, he started to practice it in the inlands of Rio. In the same year, he published his romance A Moreninha. In 1849, he founded the magazine Guanabara, along with Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegre and Gonçalves Dias. In this magazine, many parts of his poem A Nebulosa were published.
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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.
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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 -
Júlio Dinis
JÚLIO DINIS, pseudónimo de Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho, nasceu no Porto a 14 de Novembro de 1839. Tirou o curso de Medicina na Escola Médica do Porto, aliando a profissão de médico à de escritor. Os seus primeiros textos foram publicados em A Grinalda e em O Jornal do Comércio. As suas principais obras, todas assinadas como Júlio Dinis, são: As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor (1867), A Morgadinha dos Canaviais (1868), Uma Família Inglesa (1868), Serões da Província (1870), Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca (1871), Poesias (1873), Inéditos e Esparsos (1910), Teatro Inédito (1946-47). O único romance citadino é Uma Família Inglesa, baseado na literatura inglesa. As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor e A Morgadinha dos Canaviais foram romances praticamente escri
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Nuno Markl
Nuno Frederico Correia da Silva Lobato Markl nasceu em Lisboa, a 21 de Julho de 1971, no Hospital da Cruz Vermelha. Com apenas 4 anos já fazia as suas próprias bandas desenhadas, servindo-se de uma miríade de personagens para dar alma às suas histórias. Até que aos 10 anos de idade surgiu uma paixão ainda mais forte: a rádio! E foi precisamente com esta idade que começou as suas emissões radiofónicas embora estas não chegassem muito mais longe que o seu quarto. Utilizava um velho gravador National onde gravava a emissão, um microfone e uma telefonia a pilhas. Em tempo de férias ia a Vila do Conde que é a sua segunda terra (a primeira é Benfica onde vive desde a infância).
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Pêro Vaz de Caminha
Pêro Vaz de Caminha was a Portuguese knight that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral to India in 1500, as a secretary to the royal factory. Caminha wrote the detailed official report of the April 1500 discovery of Brazil by Cabral's fleet (Carta de Pêro Vaz de Caminha, dated 1 May, 1500). He died in a riot in Calicut, India, at the end of that year.
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A.G. Roemmers
Alejandro Guillermo Roemmers was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1958, in a family that gave him the opportunity of having an exceptional education. He started writing as a child and his poetry has been rewarded with several distinctions and publications. Although he became a successful businessman quite young, he has always put all his efforts to make the world a better place. His new surprising project is The Return of the Young Prince, an interesting and spiritual novel. The first edition of this book sold 65.000 copies in his country in the very first year of publication. The Return of the Young Prince is the imaginary story of the prince coming back to Earth, now as a teenager. Although this time he has a different experience, he k
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Cesário Verde
Cesário Verde (February 25, 1855 – July 19, 1886) was a 19th-century Portuguese poet. His work, while mostly ignored during his lifetime and not well known outside of the country’s borders even today, is generally considered to be amongst the most important in Portuguese poetry and is widely taught in schools. This is partly due to his being championed by many other authors after his death, notably Fernando Pessoa.
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Cesário Verde is frequently hailed as both one of Portugal’s finest urban poets and one of the country’s greatest describers of the countryside. Thus, Verde’s poems (always written in the alexandrine structure) are mostly split into “city poems” and “countryside poems” (the few that escape these two categories dealing with love, o -
Lope de Rueda
Dramaturgo español. De oficio batidor de oro, lo abandonó para dedicarse al teatro y fundar una compañía propia con gran éxito. Como autor teatral produjo comedias, coloquios pastoriles, algún auto sacramental y pasos. Sus obras están escritas al estilo de la comedia italiana y suponen el triunfo en el teatro español de la adaptación de la dramaturgia italiana, en un momento en que la influencia italianizante en la lírica castellana estaba completamente consolidada.
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Su gran creación la constituyen los pasos, precedentes del entremés e intercalados en las comedias en prosa para entretener al público con una situación de trama sencilla y rápido desenlace, cuya gracia residía en la comicidad de las situaciones y los personajes, que se expresaba -
Raul Brandão
Raul Germano Brandão (Foz do Douro, March 12, 1867 – Lisbon, December 5, 1930) was a Portuguese writer, journalist and military officer, notable for the realism of his literary descriptions and by the lyricism of his speech. Brandão was born in Foz do Douro, a parish of Porto, where he spent the majority of his youth. Born in a family of sailors, the ocean and the sailors were a recurrent theme in his work.
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Brandão finished his secondary studies in 1891. After that, the joined the military academy, where he initiated a long career in the Ministry of War. While working in the ministry, he also worked as a journalist and published several books.
In 1896, Brandão was commissioned in Guimarães, where he would know his future wife. He married in t