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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Augusto Jorge Cury (Colina, 2 de outubro de 1958) é um médico, psiquiatra, psicoterapeuta e escritor de literatura psiquiátrica brasileiro. Desenvolve em Espanha pesquisa em Ciência da Educação e, após a construção da teoria de Inteligência Multifocal, continua a desenvolver estudos sobre as dinâmicas da emoção e da construção dos pensamentos. Dirige a Academia da Inteligência no Brasil, um instituto de formação para psicólogos, educadores e outros profissionais, e actualmente os seus livros são usados em pesquisas de pós-graduação nas mais diversas áreas das Ciências Humanas.
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Augusto Cury
Augusto Jorge Cury (Colina, 2 de outubro de 1958) é um médico, psiquiatra, psicoterapeuta e escritor de literatura psiquiátrica brasileiro. Desenvolve em Espanha pesquisa em Ciência da Educação e, após a construção da teoria de Inteligência Multifocal, continua a desenvolver estudos sobre as dinâmicas da emoção e da construção dos pensamentos. Dirige a Academia da Inteligência no Brasil, um instituto de formação para psicólogos, educadores e outros profissionais, e actualmente os seus livros são usados em pesquisas de pós-graduação nas mais diversas áreas das Ciências Humanas.
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Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
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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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.
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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). -
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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Ruud van der Rol
Ruud van der Rol worked at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam for many years. He has written and edited books and educational materials dealing with Anne Frank and her family, her work and her lifetime, as well as the Holocaust, human rights, prejudice, and discrimination. Mr. van der Rol lives in Castricum.
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Edmund Wilson
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Edmund Wilson Jr. was a towering figure in 20th-century American literary criticism, known for his expansive intellect, stylistic clarity, and commitment to serious literary and political engagement. Over a prolific career, Wilson wrote for Vanity Fair, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, shaping the critical conversation on literature, politics, and culture. His major critical works—such as Axel's Castle and Patriotic Gore—combined literary analysis with historical insight, and he ventured boldly into subjects typically reserved for academic specialists, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Nati -
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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.
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Michael Reid
Michael Reid is a journalist, writer and commentator on Latin American and Iberian affairs. He has been a staff journalist with The Economist since 1994. His books include "Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul" (2007) and "Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power" (2014).
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André Vianco
Andre Vianco is now the Brazilian writer wins more readers of fantasy and terror.
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Vianco explores the supernatural and the popular imagination with ease and enthusiasm, taking the reader on a journey of no return, an "addiction" of the property.
His book The Seven already hit the home of 50,000 copies sold. Each day more and more people are enchanted with the saga of vampires Portuguese found sealed in a silver box on the Brazilian coast.
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Quino
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Comienza la escuela primaria donde descubre que su verdadero nombre es Joaquín y vive las dificultades de su personaje Felipe: «Me angustiaba tanto que en los primeros tres meses tenía malas notas, pero después terminaba el año con notas altas, aunque nunca era el primer alumno y eso me daba bronca». -
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Thomas R. Martin
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His research field covers the history of ancient Greece and Rome and numismatics. He is author and co-author of several publications and articles, among which include Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece (Priceton University Press, 1985), Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times (Yale University Press, 1992), The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2 vol., 2001) and Herodotus and Sima Qian: The F -
Martin Lindstrom
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Through unconventional thinking, Martin Lindstrom reveals how to get closer to our customers by eliminating bureaucratic red tape, bad excuses, and corporate BS, whether we’re in the office or behind our screens.
An eight-time New York Times best-selling author, Lindstrom’s books have sold 4.5 million copies and been translated Into 60 languages. His books include The Ministry of Common Sense, Buyology, and Small Data. TIME Magazine named Lindstrom "One of the World's Most Influential People," and Thinkers50 listed him one of the world’s top-20 business thinkers of 2021. -
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Quando se desgruda dos livros – tanto dos que lê quanto dos que escreve –, Carina se diverte assistindo a comédias românticas ao lado da família e planejando viagens a lugares exóticos que não conhecerá tão cedo, devido ao seu pavor de avião.
Ela nasceu em Ariranha, interior de São Paulo, onde mora atualmente com o marido e a filha, após ter vivido uma curta temporada na capital paulista.
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Ainda menina, revelou-se poeta e, aos dez anos de idade, já publicava seus primeiros versos nos jornais A Região e A Notícia, ambos de circulação local. Aos dezoito anos, mudou-se para a capital paulista a fim de prosseguir seus estudos na USP, onde concluiu os cursos de Filosofia e, mais tarde, de Letras Clássicas. Cursou também Folclore e Estética.
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Ailton Krenak
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José Eduardo Agualusa
«José Eduardo Agualusa [Alves da Cunha] nasceu no Huambo, Angola, em 1960. Estudou Silvicultura e Agronomia em Lisboa, Portugal. Os seus livros estão traduzidos em 25 idiomas.
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Escreveu várias peças de teatro: "Geração W", "Aquela Mulher", "Chovem amores na Rua do Matador" e "A Caixa Preta", estas duas últimas juntamente com Mia Couto.
Beneficiou de três bolsas de criação literária: a primeira, concedida pelo Centro Nacional de Cultura em 1997 para escrever « Nação crioula », a segunda em 2000, concedida pela Fundação Oriente, que lhe permitiu visitar Goa durante 3 meses e na sequência da qual escreveu « Um estranho em Goa » e a terceira em 2001, concedida pela instituição alemã Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Graças a esta bolsa viveu -
Adriana Lisboa
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Ganhou o Prêmio José Saramago pelo romance Sinfonia em branco, uma bolsa da Fundação Japão para o romance Rakushisha, uma bolsa da Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, no Brasil, e o prêmio de autor revelação da FNLIJ (Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil) por seu livro de poesia para crianças, Língua de trapos. Em 2007, o Hay Festival/Bogotá Capital Mundial do Livro incluiu-a na lista dos 39 mais imp -
José de Alencar
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He is patron of the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
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Nate DiMeo
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Bernardo Carvalho
Bernardo Carvalho (Rio de Janeiro, 1960) é um escritor e jornalista brasileiro.
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Foi editor do suplemento de ensaios Folhetim, e correspondente da Folha de São Paulo em Paris e Nova Iorque. Seus dois primeiros livros foram editados na França.
Bernardo Carvalho teve o seu livro Mongólia distinguido com o prêmio APCA da Associação Paulista dos Críticos de Arte, edição 2003, na categoria romance, depois de ter já vencido, a meias com Dalton Trevisan (Pico na Veia) o Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura Brasileira, com o romance Nove Noites. -
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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Atiq Rahimi
عتيق رحيمي
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Atiq Rahimi est un romancier et réalisateur de double nationalité française et afghane, réfugié de la guerre d'Afghanistan.
Atiq Rahimi is a writer and director of French and Afghan multiple citizenship, refugee from the war in Afghanistan.
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Zíbia Gasparetto
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Of Italian descent, married the twenty years of age, with Aldo Luiz Gasparetto, with whom he had four children, including the television presenter Luiz Antonio Gasparetto.
Zíbia account that in 1950, already the mother of two children, she awoke one night with a tingling in the body. Then, would have raised and spent around the house like a man, speaking in German, a language unknown to him. The husband, surprised and frightened, turned to the aid of a neighbor, who, upon arriving at the family home, would have a prayer can restore Zíbia. The next day, Aldo Luiz went to a bookstore, where you purchased The Book of Spirits. Toge -
Vitor Martins
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Daniel J. Boorstin
Daniel Joseph Boorstin was a historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1975 until 1987.
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He graduated from Tulsa's Central High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the age of 15. He graduated with highest honors from Harvard, studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and earned his PhD at Yale University. He was a lawyer and a university professor at the University of Chicago for 25 years. He also served as director of the National Museum of History and Technology of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Legs McNeil
Roderick Edward "Legs" McNeil (b. 1956 in Cheshire, Connecticut), is the co-founder and a writer for Punk Magazine. He is also a former senior editor at Spin Magazine, and the founder and editor of Nerve magazine (print only; 1992).
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At the age of 18, disgusted with the hippie movement that seemed to be going nowhere, McNeil gathered with two high school friends, John Holmstrom and Ged Dunn, and decided to create "some sort of media thing" for a living. They settled upon a magazine, assuming that people would "think [they were] cool and hang out with [them]" as well as "give [them] free drinks". The name "Punk" was decided upon because "it seemed to sum up...everything...obnoxious, smart but not pretentious, absurd, ironic, and things that ap -
Leandro Karnal
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Bruno Paes Manso
Bruno Paes Manso holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Sao Paulo (2012), an MA in Political Science from the University of Sao Paulo (2003), a BA in economics from the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Sao Paulo (1993), and a BA in journalism from the Pontifical Catholic University (1996).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 -
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.
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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").
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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.
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Paulina Chiziane
Paulina "Poulli" Chiziane (born 4 June 1955, Manjacaze, southern province of Gaza, Mozambique) is an author of novels and short stories in the Portuguese language.
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She studied at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo. She was born to a Protestant family that moved from Gaza to the capital Maputo (then Lourenço Marques) during the writer's early childhood. At home she spoke Chopi and Ronga.
Chiziane was the first woman in Mozambique to publish a novel. Her writing has generated some polemical discussions about social issues, such as the practice of polygamy in the country. For example, her first novel, Balada do Amor ao Vento (1990), discusses polygamy in southern Mozambique during the colonial period. Related to her active involvement in the p -
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.
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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Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Carlos Drummond de Andrade foi um poeta, contista e cronista brasileiro. Formou-se em Farmácia, em 1925; no mesmo ano, fundava, com Emílio Moura e outros escritores mineiros, o periódico modernista "A Revista". Em 1934 mudou-se para o Rio de Janeiro, onde assumiu o cargo de chefe de gabinete de Gustavo Capanema, Ministro da Educação e Saúde, que ocuparia até 1945. Durante esse período, colaborou, como jornalista literário, para vários periódicos, principalmente o Correio da Manhã. Nos anos de 1950, passaria a dedicar-se cada vez mais integralmente à produção literária, publicando poesia, contos, crônicas, literatura infantil e traduções. Entre suas principais obras poéticas estão os livros Alguma Poesia (1930), Sentimento do Mundo (1940), A
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Lima Barreto
Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto nasceu em 1881 na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Enfrentou o preconceito por ser mestiço durante a vida. Ficou órfão aos sete anos de idade de mãe e, algum tempo depois, seu pai foi trabalhar como almoxarife em um asilo de loucos chamado Colônia de Alienados da Ilha do Governador.
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Concluiu o curso secundário na Escola Politécnica, contudo, teve que abandonar a faculdade de Engenharia, pois seu pai havia sido internado, vítima de loucura, e o autor foi obrigado a arcar com as despesas de casa.
Como leu bastante após a conclusão do segundo grau, sua produção textual era de excelente qualidade, foi então que iniciou sua atividade como jornalista, sendo colaborador da imprensa. Contribuiu para as principais revistas de -
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 -
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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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 -
Cecília Meireles
Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the Portuguese language, and is widely considered the best poetess from Brazil, though she rightly combatted the word "poetess" because of gender discrimination.
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She traveled in the Americas in the 1940s, visiting the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. In the summer of 1940 she gave lectures at the University of Texas, Austin. She wrote two poems about her time in the capital of Texas, and a long (800 lines) very socially-aware poem "USA 1940", which was published posthumously. As a journalist her columns (crônicas, or chronicles) focused mo -
Tomás Antônio Gonzaga
Tomás Antônio Gonzaga was a Portuguese Brazilian poet. One of the most famous Neoclassic Brazilian writers, he was also the ouvidor and the ombudsman of the city of Ouro Preto (formerly "Vila Rica"), as well as the desembargador of the appeal court in Bahia. He wrote under the pen name Dirceu.
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Gonzaga was born in the Portuguese city of Porto, to Brazilian João Bernardo Gonzaga and Portuguese Tomásia Isabel Clark. As a child, the family moved to Recife and to Bahia, where João Bernardo served at the magistrature. Gonzaga was sent back to Portugal as a teenager, to the University of Coimbra, to finish his studies. With 24 years, he finished his Law course. He candidated himself to a chair at the University, with the thesis Tratado de Direito N -
Luís Bernardo Honwana
Luís Bernado Honwana (born 1942) is a Mozambican author.
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Luís Bernardo Honwana was born Luís Augusto Bernardo Manuel in Lourenço Marques (present-day Maputo), Mozambique. His parents, Raúl Bernardo Manuel (Honwana) and Naly Jeremias Nhaca, belonged to the Ronga people from Moamba, a town about 55 km northwest of Maputo. In 1964 he became a militant with FRELIMO, a front that had the objective to liberate Mozambique from Portuguese colonial rule. Due to his political activities he was arrested by the colonial authorities and was incarcerated for three years.
He studied law in Portugal and worked for some time as a journalist. He was appointed director of President's office under Samora Machel. Later in 1981, he became Secretary of State for cu -
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.
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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 -
Ruth Guimarães
Nascida em Cachoeira Paulista-SP, em 13 de junho de 1920, Ruth Botelho Guimarães, além de poeta, romancista, contista, cronista, jornalista e teatróloga, notabilizou-se como tradutora e pesquisadora da literatura oral no Brasil.1 Além disso, lecionou Língua Portuguesa por mais de 30 anos em escolas da rede pública de São Paulo.
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Ainda menina, revelou-se poeta e, aos dez anos de idade, já publicava seus primeiros versos nos jornais A Região e A Notícia, ambos de circulação local. Aos dezoito anos, mudou-se para a capital paulista a fim de prosseguir seus estudos na USP, onde concluiu os cursos de Filosofia e, mais tarde, de Letras Clássicas. Cursou também Folclore e Estética.
Como jornalista, colaborou na imprensa paulista e carioca, mantendo t -
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
DJAIMILIA PEREIRA DE ALMEIDA nasceu em Luanda em 1982. É licenciada em Estudos Portugueses, pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa e Mestre em Teoria da Literatura (2006) e Doutorada em Estudos Literários (Teoria da Literatura) (2012), pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Em 2013, foi uma das vencedoras do Prémio de Ensaísmo serrote atribuído no Brasil pela revista serrote, do Instituto Moreira Salles. Fundou e dirige a Forma de Vida (www.formadevida.org). Trabalha na Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia e é, desde março de 2021, consultora da Casa Civil do Presidente da República, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
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Paulo Freire
The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire is among most the influential educational thinkers of the late 20th century. Born in Recife, Brazil, on September 19, 1921, Freire died of heart failure in Sao Paulo, Brazil on May 2, 1997. After a brief career as a lawyer, he taught Portuguese in secondary schools from 1941-1947. He subsequently became active in adult education and workers' training, and became the first Director of the Department of Cultural Extension of the University of Recife (1961-1964).
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Freire quickly gained international recognition for his experiences in literacy training in Northeastern Brazil. Following the military coup d'etat of 1964, he was jailed by the new government and eventually forced into a political exile that lasted -
Theodore Dalrymple
Anthony Malcolm Daniels, who generally uses the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is an English writer and retired prison doctor and psychiatrist. He worked in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries as well as in the east end of London. Before his retirement in 2005, he worked in City Hospital, Birmingham and Winson Green Prison in inner-city Birmingham, England.
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Daniels is a contributing editor to City Journal, published by the Manhattan Institute, where he is the Dietrich Weismann Fellow. In addition to City Journal, his work has appeared in The British Medical Journal, The Times, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Salisbury Review, National Review, and Axess magasin.
In 2011, Dalrymple received the 2011 Freedom Prize from -
Carol Chiovatto
Carol Chiovatto nasceu em 1989 em Niterói - RJ, mas mora em São Paulo desde os quatro meses de idade. Escritora e tradutora, é doutora em Letras com pesquisa sobre a imagem da bruxa enquanto estereótipo do feminino transgressor em seu doutorado (USP/FAPESP). Integrante do grupo de pesquisa Nós do Insólito (UERJ). Seu romance de estreia, a fantasia urbana PORÉM BRUXA (AVEC, 2019) venceu o Prêmio Odisseia de Literatura Fantástica, e sua novela space opera SENCIENTE NÍVEL 5 foi finalista do Prêmio Jabuti 2021.
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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.
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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 -
Mia Couto
Journalist and a biologist, his works in Portuguese have been published in more than 22 countries and have been widely translated. Couto was born António Emílio Leite Couto.
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He won the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 2013 Camões Prize for Literature, one of the most prestigious international awards honoring the work of Portuguese language writers (created in 1989 by Portugal and Brazil).
An international jury at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair called his first novel, Terra Sonâmbula (Sleepwalking Land), "one of the best 12 African books of the 20th century."
In April 2007, he became the first African author to win the prestigious Latin Union Award of Romanic Languages, which has been awarded annually in Italy sinc -
Tomáš Halík
Tomáš Halík is a Czech public intellectual, Roman Catholic priest, and scholar.
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Henrique Schneider
Henrique Schneider nasceu em 1963, em Novo Hamburgo/RS – cidade onde hoje vive. Filho da ex-miss e professora universitária Therezinha e do ex-rei Momo e deputado Nestor Fips Schneider, desde cedo esteve próximo da literatura. Ao lado dos jogos de futebol no campinho do colégio e das correrias de polícia e ladrão, os livros e revistas. A loja de brinquedo e a livraria.
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É pai dos grandes Pedro e Felipe. Graduado em Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), desde 1993 é sócio da Fagundes, Schneider e Advogados Associados.
Na época da faculdade, publicou seu primeiro livro: Pedro Bruxo (Editora Metrópole). Publicado em 1984, o livro ganhou ainda outras duas edições pela Editora Caetés.
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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 -
Paul Bloom
Paul Bloom is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University. His research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with special focus on morality, religion, fiction, and art. He has published more than a hundred scientific articles in journals such as Science and Nature, and his popular writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Slate, Natural History, and many other publications. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching. His newest book--Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil--is coming out in November. Paul Bloom lives in New Haven with his wife and two sons.
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John Truby
John Truby (born 1952) is an American screenwriter, director, screenwriting teacher and author. He has served as a consultant on over 1,000 film scripts over the past three decades, and is also known for the screenwriting software program Blockbuster (originally "Storyline Pro"). He is the author of Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, a book about screenwriting skills.
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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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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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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.
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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 -
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)
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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.
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Marcos Costa
Marcos Costa pensou em ser arquiteto, mas logo desistiu e foi fazer História na UNESP. Tornou-se mestre e doutor em História Social também pela UNESP. Historiador, professor universitário, pesquisador e escritor.
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Pedro Poeira
Pedro Poeira é apaixonado por livros, séries, lasanha e filmes da Disney. Mora em São Paulo e é formado em letras pela USP. É autor de "Adivinha quem não voltou pra casa?", best-seller da Amazon, e "A gente dá certo", publicado pela editora Nacional. Você também pode encontrar uma história sua na coletânea "As crônicas da Unifenda". De tanto tempo livre quando criança, hoje passa mais tempo no mundo da ficção — seu preferido — do que no mundo real. Você pode encontrá-lo nas redes sociais em @pedropoeira.
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Olavo de Carvalho
Olavo de Carvalho, nascido em Campinas, Estado de São Paulo, em 29 de abril de 1947, tem sido saudado pela crítica como um dos mais originais e audaciosos pensadores brasileiros. Homens de orientações intelectuais tão diferentes quanto Jorge Amado, Arnaldo Jabor, Ciro Gomes, Roberto Campos, J. O. de Meira Penna, Bruno Tolentino, Herberto Sales, Josué Montello e o ex-presidente da República José Sarney já expressaram sua admiração pela sua pessoa e pelo seu trabalho.
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A tônica de sua obra é a defesa da interioridade humana contra a tirania da autoridade coletiva, sobretudo quando escorada numa ideologia "científica". Para Olavo de Carvalho, existe um vínculo indissolúvel entre a objetividade do conhecimento e a autonomia da consciência individ -
Sasha Sokolov
Sasha Sokolov (born Александр Всеволодович Соколов/Alexander Vsevolodovitch Sokolov on November 6, 1943, in Ottawa, Canada) is a paradoxical writer of Russian literature.
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He became known worldwide in the 1970s after his first novel A School for Fools had been published by Ardis Publishing (Ann Arbor, Michigan) in the US, and later reissued by Four Walls Eight Windows. Sokolov is one of the most important authors of 20th-century Russian literature. He is well acclaimed for his unorthodox use of language, playing with rhythms, sounds and associations. The author himself coined the term "proeziia" for his work—in between prose and poetry.
Sokolov is a Canadian citizen and has lived the larger part of his life so far in the United States. During -
Fernando Morais
Jornalista desde 1961, trabalhou nas redações do Jornal da Tarde, Veja, Folha de S. Paulo e TV Cultura.
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Recebeu três vezes o Prêmio Esso e quatro vezes o Prêmio Abril de Jornalismo. Foi deputado estadual durante oito anos (pelo MDB-SP e depois pelo PMDB-SP) e secretário da Cultura (1988-1991) e da Educação (1991-1993) do Estado de São Paulo. É autor dos roteiros das minisséries documentais Brasil 500 Anos e Cinco dias que abalaram o Brasil, exibidas pelo canal GNT/Globosat.
Escreveu, entre outros, Transamazônica (Brasiliense, 1970, com Ricardo Gontijo e Alfredo Rizutti), A Ilha (Alfa-Ômega, 1975, reeditado pela Companhia das Letras em 2001), Olga (Alfa-Ômega, 1985, reeditado pela Companhia das Letras em 1993), Chatô, o rei do Brasil (Companh -
Eduardo Spohr
Writer, journalist, blogger and member of the NerdCast, podcast published by the site JovemNerd. He is the author of the novel "A Batalha do Apocalipse" and nowadays helps to manage the NerdBooks imprint, focused in fantasy literature. In addition, he is a teacher in Hélio Alonso college, in Rio de Janeiro, where he ministers the literature course "Literary Structure - The Hero's Journey in Cinema and Literature".
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Roberto González Echevarría
Roberto González Echevarría is Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature at Yale.
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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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Júlia Lopes de Almeida
The first Brazilian woman to lead what can legitimately be called a career as an author, Júlia Valentina de Silveira Lopes de Almeida was a novelist and playwright, an advocate for women's education and other progressive social reform, and an all-around intellectual. Though she was immensely popular in the late 19th and early 20th Century, her works were forgotten soon after her death, largely due to the country's literary trajectory toward modernism. Recently, however, scholars and readers have begun to unearth and rediscover the pleasures and technical merits of the vast and diverse body of literature she left behind.
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Thiago Nigro
Thiago Lolkus Nigro é um empresário, educador financeiro e youtuber brasileiro. É idealizador e sócio-proprietário do projeto O Primo Rico, veículo de internet voltado a ensinar educação financeira e gestão de dinheiro.
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Robert Perišić
Robert Perišić (born. 1969) is a prominent Croatian poet, writer and journalist. He took his BA in Croatian language and literature at Philosophical Faculty in Zagreb. His criticism and essays were published in Feral Tribune and Playboy magazines. Perišić lives in Zagreb and works as a freelance writer.
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Caio Carneiro
Caio Carneiro, nascido em São Paulo, empreendedor e muito sonhador desde quando se entende por gente, decidiu viver a vida de maneira intensa aproveitando todas as oportunidades, conquistando assim seu primeiro milhão aos 25 anos de idade, aprendendo em suas experiências que às vezes você ganha e nas outras você aprende. Hoje viaja o mundo inteiro fazendo negócios e contando suas histórias, desde seus primeiros fracassos no mundo dos negócios até a conquista dos seus primeiros milhões na indústria do Network Marketing. Compartilhando todas as suas vivências, erros, acertos e o melhor de todos os seus aprendizados, Caio sempre foi adepto à filosofia que você é a soma das suas experiências e você é do tamanho que acredita ser. Se apenas uma f
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Lídia Jorge
LÍDIA GUERREIRO JORGE nasceu em Boliqueime, Loulé a 18 de Junho de 1946. Concluído o curso de Filologia Românica, dedicou-se ao ensino liceal (Angola, Moçambique e Lisboa). Publicou os romances O Dia dos Prodígios (1980, Prémio Ricardo Malheiros), O Cais das Merendas (1982, Prémio Literário Município de Lisboa), Notícia da Cidade Silvestre (1984, Prémio Literário Município de Lisboa), A Costa dos Murmúrios (1988), A Última Dona (1992), O Jardim Sem Limites (Prémio Bordalo, 1995), O Vale da Paixão (Prémio D. Dinis, 1998), O Vento Assobiando nas Grutas (2002, Grande Prémio do Romance e Novela da APE/DGLB), Combateremos a Sombra (2005, Prémio Charles Bisset) e A Noite das Mulheres Cantoras (2011); os livros de contos A Instrumentalina (1992),
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Deborah Smith
aka Jackie Leigh
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aka Della Stone
aka Leigh Bridger
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Deborah Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of A Place to Call Home, and the No. 1 Kindle Bestseller The Crossroads Cafe, A Gentle Rain and other acclaimed romantic novels portraying life and love in the modern Appalachian South. A native Georgian, Deborah is a former newspaper editor who turned to novel-writing with great success.
With more than 35 romance, women's fiction and fantasy novels to her credit, Deborah's books have sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Among her honors is a Lifetime Achievement Award from Romantic Times Magazine and a nomination for the prestigious Townsend L -
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.
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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 -
André Bazin
Writings of French critic and film theorist André Bazin influenced the development of cinema of New Wave.
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André Bazin founded the renowned and pioneering journal, Cahiers du cinéma.
Bazin saw and argued to depict "objective reality," such as documentaries of the Italian neo-realism school and "invisible" directors, such as Howard Winchester Hawks. He advocated the use of deep focus as George Orson Welles and wide shots as Jean Renoir "in depth," and he preferred "true continuity" through mise en scène over experiments in editing and visual effects. This preference placed him in opposition of the 1920s and 1930s to those who emphasized ability to manipulate reality. Theory of Bazin to leave the interpretation of a scene to the spectator link -
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
DJAIMILIA PEREIRA DE ALMEIDA nasceu em Luanda em 1982. É licenciada em Estudos Portugueses, pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa e Mestre em Teoria da Literatura (2006) e Doutorada em Estudos Literários (Teoria da Literatura) (2012), pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Em 2013, foi uma das vencedoras do Prémio de Ensaísmo serrote atribuído no Brasil pela revista serrote, do Instituto Moreira Salles. Fundou e dirige a Forma de Vida (www.formadevida.org). Trabalha na Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia e é, desde março de 2021, consultora da Casa Civil do Presidente da República, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
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Paulina Chiziane
Paulina "Poulli" Chiziane (born 4 June 1955, Manjacaze, southern province of Gaza, Mozambique) is an author of novels and short stories in the Portuguese language.
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She studied at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo. She was born to a Protestant family that moved from Gaza to the capital Maputo (then Lourenço Marques) during the writer's early childhood. At home she spoke Chopi and Ronga.
Chiziane was the first woman in Mozambique to publish a novel. Her writing has generated some polemical discussions about social issues, such as the practice of polygamy in the country. For example, her first novel, Balada do Amor ao Vento (1990), discusses polygamy in southern Mozambique during the colonial period. Related to her active involvement in the p -
José Paulo Paes
José Paulo Paes foi um poeta, tradutor, crítico literário e ensaísta brasileiro.
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Tendo estudado química industrial na cidade de Curitiba (entre 1945 e 1948), durante muitos anos José Paulo trabalhou em laboratório farmacêutico. Todavia, paralelo a essa profissão jamais deixou de lado a literatura, cujo interesse foi lhe passado pelo avô que era livreiro, sendo que ainda nos tempos de aluno em Curitiba, já colaborava com a revista Joaquim, dirigida por Dalton Trevisan. Dessa temporada paranaense nasce seu livro de estreia, O aluno, de 1947, fortemente influenciado pela poesia de Carlos Drummond de Andrade, o qual o respondeu com o conselho de evitar a imitação de vozes alheias.
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Rachel de Queiroz
Quinta ocupante da Cadeira 5, eleita em 4 de agosto de 1977, na sucessão de Candido Motta Filho e recebida pelo Acadêmico Adonias Filho em 4 de novembro de 1977.
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Raquel de Queirós nasceu em Fortaleza (CE), em 17 de novembro de 1910, e faleceu no Rio de Janeiro (RJ) em 4 de novembro de 2003. Filha de Daniel de Queirós e de Clotilde Franklin de Queirós, descende, pelo lado materno, da estirpe dos Alencar, parente portanto do autor ilustre de O Guarani, e, pelo lado paterno, dos Queirós, família de raízes profundamente lançadas no Quixadá e Beberibe.
Em 1917, veio para o Rio de Janeiro, em companhia dos pais que procuravam, nessa migração, fugir dos horrores da terrível seca de 1915, que mais tarde a romancista iria aproveitar como tema de O Qui -
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Carlos Reis
CARLOS REIS nasceu em 28 de setembro de 1950, em Angra do Heroísmo. É Licenciado em Filologia Românica (1974) e doutorado em Literatura Portuguesa (1983) pela Faculdade de Letras Universidade de Coimbra, onde é professor catedrático, desde 1990. Foi professor convidado das Universidades de Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela, Wisconsin-Madison, Massachusetts-Dartmouth e da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul.
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Foi ainda Diretor do Centro de Estudos de Língua e Cultura Portuguesa da Universidade Aberta (1988-1998), Diretor da Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa, entre Maio de 1998 e Outubro de 2002 e reitor da Universidade Aberta (2002-06). Coordenador de várias coleções, de onde se destacam a História Crítica da Literatura Portugues -
José Mármol
Journalist, politician, librarian, and writer of the Romantic school.
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Born in Buenos Aires, he initially studied law, but abandoned his studies in favor of politics. In 1839, no sooner had he begun to make a name for himself than he was arrested for his opposition to Argentina's conservative caudillo, Juan Manuel de Rosas. He was held in irons for six days. A year and a half later, the political climate spurred him, as it had many other Argentine dissenters, to flee the country. He found passage to Montevideo on a French schooner. He was welcomed by other exiles, among them Juan Bautista Alberdi, Florencio Varela, Esteban Echeverría, Juan María Gutiérrez, and Miguel Cané. Three years later, the siege of Montevideo by Rosas's ally Manuel Orib -
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.
In his more mature phase, he adopts an aspect of good-humored and sensual -
Teófilo Hayashi
Em 2000, Téo iniciou o seu ministério como missionário da JOCUM. Depois de ter servido no campo missionário na Ásia, passou 5 anos trabalhando com Kingsley Fletcher Ministries nos EUA e regressou ao Brasil em 2008 para servir como um dos pastores da Comunidade Monte Sião. Em abril do mesmo ano, fundou o Movimento Dunamis o qual atualmente lidera. Além de seu envolvimento com o Dunamis e com seu ministério pastoral, também possui um ministério itinerante onde tem viajado pelo Brasil e por mais de 20 nações como preletor e avivalista, espalhando o fogo do Espírito Santo em congressos, conferências e eventos.
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É formado em psicologia pela Liberty University (EUA) e com um mestrado de estudos interculturais em andamento pela Southwestern Christia -
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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Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Carlos Drummond de Andrade foi um poeta, contista e cronista brasileiro. Formou-se em Farmácia, em 1925; no mesmo ano, fundava, com Emílio Moura e outros escritores mineiros, o periódico modernista "A Revista". Em 1934 mudou-se para o Rio de Janeiro, onde assumiu o cargo de chefe de gabinete de Gustavo Capanema, Ministro da Educação e Saúde, que ocuparia até 1945. Durante esse período, colaborou, como jornalista literário, para vários periódicos, principalmente o Correio da Manhã. Nos anos de 1950, passaria a dedicar-se cada vez mais integralmente à produção literária, publicando poesia, contos, crônicas, literatura infantil e traduções. Entre suas principais obras poéticas estão os livros Alguma Poesia (1930), Sentimento do Mundo (1940), A
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Cecília Meireles
Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the Portuguese language, and is widely considered the best poetess from Brazil, though she rightly combatted the word "poetess" because of gender discrimination.
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She traveled in the Americas in the 1940s, visiting the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. In the summer of 1940 she gave lectures at the University of Texas, Austin. She wrote two poems about her time in the capital of Texas, and a long (800 lines) very socially-aware poem "USA 1940", which was published posthumously. As a journalist her columns (crônicas, or chronicles) focused mo -
Tomás Antônio Gonzaga
Tomás Antônio Gonzaga was a Portuguese Brazilian poet. One of the most famous Neoclassic Brazilian writers, he was also the ouvidor and the ombudsman of the city of Ouro Preto (formerly "Vila Rica"), as well as the desembargador of the appeal court in Bahia. He wrote under the pen name Dirceu.
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Gonzaga was born in the Portuguese city of Porto, to Brazilian João Bernardo Gonzaga and Portuguese Tomásia Isabel Clark. As a child, the family moved to Recife and to Bahia, where João Bernardo served at the magistrature. Gonzaga was sent back to Portugal as a teenager, to the University of Coimbra, to finish his studies. With 24 years, he finished his Law course. He candidated himself to a chair at the University, with the thesis Tratado de Direito N -
Luís Bernardo Honwana
Luís Bernado Honwana (born 1942) is a Mozambican author.
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Luís Bernardo Honwana was born Luís Augusto Bernardo Manuel in Lourenço Marques (present-day Maputo), Mozambique. His parents, Raúl Bernardo Manuel (Honwana) and Naly Jeremias Nhaca, belonged to the Ronga people from Moamba, a town about 55 km northwest of Maputo. In 1964 he became a militant with FRELIMO, a front that had the objective to liberate Mozambique from Portuguese colonial rule. Due to his political activities he was arrested by the colonial authorities and was incarcerated for three years.
He studied law in Portugal and worked for some time as a journalist. He was appointed director of President's office under Samora Machel. Later in 1981, he became Secretary of State for cu -
Allen Hatcher
Allen Hatcher is an American research mathematician and author currently at Cornell University. He specializes in Topology.
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Diana Peterfreund
Diana Peterfreund has been a costume designer, a cover model, and a food critic. Her travels have taken her from the cloud forests of Costa Rica to the underground caverns of New Zealand (and as far as she’s concerned, she’s just getting started). Diana graduated from Yale University in 2001 with dual degrees in Literature and Geology, which her family claimed would only come in handy if she wrote books about rocks. Now, this Florida girl lives with her husband and their puppy in Washington D.C., and writes books that rock
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Her first novel, Secret Society Girl (2006), was described as “witty and endearing” by The New York Observer and was placed on the New York Public LIbrary’s 2007 Books for the Teen Age list. The follow-up, Under the Rose ( -
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.
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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. -
Nathalia Arcuri
Nathalia Arcuri é Educadora, Jornalista, Blogueira, e Planejadora Financeira. Em seu currículo ela tem jornalismo pela Uni Fiam Faam desde 2006. Arcuri teve trabalhos como Estagiária no SBT entre 2005 e 2006, Repórter, Produtora, Editora e Apresentadora no SBT entre os anos de 2007 e 2009.
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Nathalia ainda é Autora do Blog “Me Poupe!”, desde 2013, tem formação em educação financeira pelo Instituto DSOP (2012) e também é formada em planejamento de finanças através do INSPER (2014). -
Caio Fernando Abreu
Caio Fernando Loureiro de Abreu nasceu no dia 12 de setembro de 1948, em Santiago, no Rio Grande do Sul. Jovem ainda mudou-se para Porto Alegre onde publicou seus primeiros contos. Cursou Letras na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, depois Artes Dramáticas, mas abandonou ambos para dedicar-se ao trabalho jornalístico no Centro e Sul do país, em revistas como Pop, Nova, Veja e Manchete, foi editor de Leia Livros e colaborou nos jornais Correio do Povo, Zero Hora, O Estado de São Paulo e Folha de São Paulo.
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No ano de 1968 — em plena ditadura militar — foi perseguido pelo DOPS (Departamento de Ordem Política e Social), tendo se refugiado no sítio da escritora e amiga Hilda Hilst, na periferia de Campinas, São Paulo.
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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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Jessé Souza
Jessé José Freire de Souza is a sociologist, university professor and Brazilian researcher who works in the areas of Social Theory, Brazilian Social Thought and theoretical / empirical studies on inequality and social classes in contemporary Brazil. He is the author of the books 'A Ralé Brasileira', A Radiografia do Golpe', 'A Elite do Atraso' and 'A Classe Média no Espelho'.
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Graduated in Law from the University of Brasília (1981), he completed his Master's degree in Sociology from the same institution in 1986. In 1991, he obtained a PhD in Sociology from the Karl Ruprecht Universität Heidelberg (Germany), where he obtained free teaching and PhD in the same discipline at the Universität Flensburg in 2006. He also did postdoctoral studies in