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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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  Rubem Fonseca

  He is an important brazilian writer (novelist, short story writer and screenwriter), born in Juiz de Fora, state of Minas Gerais, but he lived for most of his life in Rio de Janeiro. In 1952, he started his career in the police and became a policy commissioner. Even though, he refuses to do interviews and is a very reclusive person, much like Thomas Pynchon, who is a personal friend of Fonseca.
  His writing is pretty dark and gritty, filled with violence and sexual content, and it usually happens in a very urban setting. He says that a writer should have the courage to show what most people are afraid to say. His work is considered groundbreaking in Brazilian literature, up until then mostly focused on rural settings and usually treating citi

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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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  Caetano W. Galindo

  CAETANO W. GALINDO nasceu em Curitiba, em 1973, é professor, pesquisador, tradutor e escritor. Sua tradução de Ulysses recebeu os mais importantes prêmios literários do país.
  
  É autor de Sim, eu digo sim: Uma visita guiada ao Ulysses de James Joyce (2016), finalista do prêmio Rio de Literatura, e do livro de contos Sobre os canibais (2019). Ensaio sobre o entendimento humano, livro não comercial, com tiragem limitada, recebeu o prêmio Paraná de Literatura em 2013.

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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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  Vanessa Barbara

  Vanessa Barbara is a Brazilian journalist and author. She writes for the magazine Piauí and the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo. Her articles are also featured in the International New York Times.
  
  Barbara won the 2009 Jabuti Prize in Journalism for her work O Livro Amarelo do Terminal, about the Tietê Bus Terminal. She was shortlisted for the São Paulo Prize for Literature in 2008 for her debut book O Verão do Chibo. She was also listed by Granta among the Best of Young Brazilian Novelists in 2012.

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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.
  
  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

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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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  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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  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.
  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

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  Pedro Bandeira

  Pedro Bandeira é um escritor brasileiro de livros infanto-juvenis. É também o autor de literatura juvenil mais vendido no Brasil (vinte milhões de exemplares até 2006) e, como especialista em letramento e técnicas especiais de leitura, profere conferências para professores em todo o país. É autor de 77 livros publicados, entre eles títulos consagrados como a série Os Karas, A Marca de uma Lágrima, Agora Estou Sozinha..., A Hora da Verdade e Prova de Fogo.
  Recebeu vários prêmios, como o Prêmio APCA, da Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte e o Prêmio Jabuti, da Câmara Brasileira do Livro, entre outros.
  
  

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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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  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Carolina Maria de Jesus was born on March 14, 1914 in Sacramento-MG, where she lived in her childhood and adolescence. Her parents probably migrated from Desemboque to Sacramento as a result of changing the economics of gold mining to farming activities.
  
  In Sacramento, she attended primary school in a Spiritualist College, which had a mission aimed at poor children of the town, with the help of influential people. Carolina studied just over two years but learned to read and write there. She later remembered reading posters outside movie theaters and realizing that reading was not just something done in school, but a skill that could be used everywhere. All her reading and writing was based on this short time of formal education. She quit sch

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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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  Franz Kafka

  Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
  
  Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
  
  His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).
  
  Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of

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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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  Lygia Bojunga Nunes

  Lygia Bojunga (often known with the addition of Nunes, her pen name) (born August 26, 1932 in Pelotas) is a Brazilian author of children's books. She worked of TV and radio until her first book was published in 1972. A major element of her books is the usage of the child's point of view.
  
  Lygia Bojunga is part of the tradition of magical realism and fantasy-filled storytelling of South America, a tradition she has developed and perfected. In her word of mouth-style narratives, characterised by a strongly dramatic presence, anything can happen. In a deeply original way she fuses playfulness, poetic beauty and absurd humour with social critique, a love of freedom and a strong empathy with the vulnerable child. Fantasy often functions as a way o

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  Jô Soares

  José Eugênio Soares, mais conhecido como Jô Soares, foi um humorista, apresentador de televisão, escritor, artista plástico, diretor teatral e ator brasileiro.Nasceu em 16 de janeiro de 1938, no Rio de Janeiro. Filho do empresário paraibano Orlando Soares e da dona-de-casa Mercedes Leal, Jô queria ser diplomata quando criança. Estudou no Colégio São Bento do Rio de Janeiro e em Lausanne na Suíça, no Lycée Jaccard, com este objetivo. Porém, percebeu que o senso de humor apurado e a criatividade inatas apontavam-no para outra direção. Começou a trabalhar na TV Rio em 1958 e na TV Excelsior e TV Record na década de 1960, em São Paulo. Na década seguinte (1970-80), foi co-autor e ator nos seguintes programas humorísticos de televisão: Faça Humo

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  Charles Yale Harrison

  Charles Yale Harrison was born in Philadelphia in 1898 but later moved to Montreal with his family. He reportedly left school in grade four following an argument with a teacher about The Merchant of Venice. At the age of sixteen, he took a job with the Montreal Star, but shortly after he enlisted with the Royal Montreal Regiment and fought as a machine-gunner in France and Belgium in the First World War. He was wounded in 1918 during the Battle of Amiens and returned to Montreal, where he married and had a son.
  
  His first novel, Generals Die in Bed, was published in 1930, in both the United Kingdom and the United States, and was compared to such classic war literature as All Quiet on the Western Front and A Farewell to Arms. He subsequently w

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  Domingos Pellegrini

  Domingos Pellegrini (Londrina, 23 de julho de 1949) é um escritor brasileiro. Filho de um barbeiro e de uma dona de pensão, desde pequeno ouviu muitas histórias contadas pelas pessoas ora no salão de seu pai, ora na pensão de sua mãe, aproximando-se assim da tradição das narrativas orais. Formado em Letras, mais tarde passou a trabalhar como jornalista. Lançou o primeiro livro em 1977, O homem vermelho, uma coletânea de contos. Com ele recebeu o Prêmio Jabuti, um dos mais importantes prêmios literários do país. Nesse mesmo ano, lançou nova coletânea de contos, Os meninos. Além da literatura, escreve para jornais e revistas e faz trabalhos publicitários.
  Entre as suas obras destacam-se Terra Vermelha, que conta a história da colonização do Pa

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