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.
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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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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Ailton Krenak
Ailton Krenak é escritor, roteirista, porta-voz e pensador indígena. Integrante da comunidade dos Krenak, aos dezessete anos migrou com seus parentes para o estado do Paraná. Posteriormente, tornou-se produtor gráfico e jornalista. Dedica-se ao movimento indígena desde muito jovem. Graças a esforços coletivos e do próprio escritor, o número de indivíduos de sua comunidade voltou a subir, depois de sofrer grande queda em números totais até os anos 1980, e fechou o século 20 com 150 indivíduos. É professor doutor Honoris Causa pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Participou da antologia A outra margem do ocidente (Minc-Funarte/ Companhia das Letras, 1999), e publicou a entrevista Ailton Krenak (Azougue, 2015) e O lugar onde a Terra desc
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Jennifer Brown
Two-time winner of the Erma Bombeck Global Humor Award (2005 & 2006), Jennifer's weekly humor column appeared in The Kansas City Star for over four years, until she gave it up to be a full-time young adult novelist.
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Jennifer's debut novel, HATE LIST (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2009) received three starred reviews and was selected as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a VOYA "Perfect Ten," and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. HATE LIST also won the Michigan Library Association's Thumbs Up! Award, the Louisiana Teen Readers Choice award, the 2012 Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award, was an honorable mention for the 2011 Arkansas Teen Book Award, is a YALSA 2012 Popular Paperback, received spots on the Texas Library Associa -
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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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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Elliot Aronson
Elliot Aronson (Born January 1932) is listed among the 100 most eminent psychologist of the 20th Century, best known for his Jigsaw Classroom experiments, cognitive dissonance research, and bestselling Social Psychology textbooks. He is the only person in the 120-year history of the American Psychological Association to have won all three of its major awards: For distinguished writing (1973), for distinguished teaching (1980), and for distinguished research (1999). In 2007 he received the William James Award for Distinguished Research from APS.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the Unit
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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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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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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).
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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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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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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the Unit
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Ailton Krenak
Ailton Krenak é escritor, roteirista, porta-voz e pensador indígena. Integrante da comunidade dos Krenak, aos dezessete anos migrou com seus parentes para o estado do Paraná. Posteriormente, tornou-se produtor gráfico e jornalista. Dedica-se ao movimento indígena desde muito jovem. Graças a esforços coletivos e do próprio escritor, o número de indivíduos de sua comunidade voltou a subir, depois de sofrer grande queda em números totais até os anos 1980, e fechou o século 20 com 150 indivíduos. É professor doutor Honoris Causa pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Participou da antologia A outra margem do ocidente (Minc-Funarte/ Companhia das Letras, 1999), e publicou a entrevista Ailton Krenak (Azougue, 2015) e O lugar onde a Terra desc
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Itamar Vieira Junior
Itamar Vieira Junior (Salvador, 1979) é um escritor brasileiro. Formou-se em Geografia na Universidade Federal da Bahia, onde também concluiu mestrado. É doutor em Estudos Étnicos e Africanos pela Universidade Federal da Bahia com estudo sobre a formação de comunidades quilombolas no interior do Nordeste brasileiro. Em 2018, venceu o Prémio LeYa, com o romance “Torto Arado”.
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Narcisa Amália
Narcisa Amália de Campos (São João da Barra-RJ, 3 de abril de 1852 — Rio de Janeiro, 24 de julho de 1924) foi tradutora, poeta, escritora, crítica literária, jornalista brasileira e professora.
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Foi a primeira mulher a trabalhar como jornalista profissional no Brasil, além de abolicionista, republicana e feminista. Movida por forte sensibilidade social, combateu a opressão da mulher e o regime escravista.
Segundo Sílvia Paixão, “um dos raros nomes femininos que falam de identidade nacional” e busca sua própria identidade “numa poética uterina que imprime o retorno ao lugar de origem”.
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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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Jeferson Tenório
Jeferson Tenório was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1977. Based in Porto Alegre, he is a doctoral student in Literary Theory at PUCRS and a lecturer in literature.
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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.
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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 -
Nísia Floresta
Nísia Floresta Brasileira Augusta, pseudônimo de Dionísia Gonçalves Pinto, (Papari, atual Nísia Floresta, 12 de outubro de 1810 — Rouen, França, 24 de abril de 1885) foi uma educadora, escritora e poetisa brasileira mais conhecida como Nísia Floresta.
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Primeira na educação feminista no Brasil, com protagonismo nas letras, no jornalismo e nos movimentos sociais. Defensora de ideais abolicionistas, republicanos e principalmente feministas, de consciência antecipadora para sua época, influenciou a prática educacional brasileira, rompendo limites do lugar social destinado à mulher.
Capaz de estabelecer um diálogo entre ideias europeias e o contexto brasileiro no qual viveu, dedicou obras e ensinos sobre a condição feminina e foi considerada pionei -
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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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).
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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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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). -
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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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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Lygia Fagundes Telles
Lygia Fagundes Telles (born April 19, 1923) is a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in São Paulo and is one of Brazil's most important living writers.
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Her first book of short stories, Praia Viva (Living Beach), was published in 1944. In 1949 got the Afonso Arinos award for her short stories book O Cacto Vermelho (Red Cactus). Among her most successful books are Ciranda de Pedra (The Marble Dance) (1954), Verão no Aquário (1963), Antes do Baile Verde (1970), Seminário dos Ratos (1977) and As Horas Nuas, (1989). The book Antes do Baile Verde won the Best Foreign Women Writers Grand Prix in Cannes (France) in 1969.
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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 -
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 -
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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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 -
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.
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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." -
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu , known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
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Christian Dunker
É psicanalista e professor titular do departamento de Psicologia Clínica do Instituto de Psicologia da USP. É analista membro da Escola de Psicanálise dos Fóruns do Campo Lacaniano e coordenador do Laboratório de Teoria Social, Filosofia e Psicanálise da USP. Fez seu pós-doutorado na Manchester Metropolitan University, sendo professor convidado em mais de quinze universidades internacionais. Duas vezes agraciado com o prêmio Jabuti, por "Estrutura e constituição da clínica psicanalítica" (Anablume, 2012) e "Mal estar, sofrimento e sintoma" (Boitempo, 2016).
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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 -
Isaac Rosa
Isaac Rosa Camacho (Sevilla, 1974) es un escritor español.
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Vivió en Extremadura y actualmente reside en Madrid. Es columnista habitual de Eldiario.es, colabora con la Cadena Ser y la revista mensual La Marea, entre otras publicaciones. Fue columnista del diario Público y de la revista satírica El Jueves.
Se dio a conocer con una novela de humor y de título iconoclasta y revelador: ¡Otra maldita novela sobre la guerra civil! (2007), que reelaboraba un relato de 1999. Su novela El vano ayer ganó en 2005 el Premio Rómulo Gallegos en competencia con otros autores españoles como Almudena Grandes, Andrés Trapiello, o Juan Bonilla. El reconocimiento de la crítica fue generalizado. La novela elige un género poco frecuentado y relacionado con la pos -
Malba Tahan
Malba Tahan, full name Ali Yezzid Izz-Edin ibn-Salim Hanak Malba Tahan, was a fictitious Persian scholar. He was the creation and frequent pen name of Brazilian author Júlio César de Mello e Souza.
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According to the dedication and introductory chapters of The Man Who Counted (ostensibly written in the month of Ramadan in the year of the Hijrah 1321, corresponding to November 1903), Malba Tahan was a native and well-connected resident of Baghdad, a sharif (a descendant of Caliph Ali Ibn Abi Talib), and a hajj (a Muslim who made the pilgrimage to Mecca).
In the year of the Hijrah 1255 1839, Malba Tahan moved to Constantinople with his lifelong friend Beremiz Samir, the namesake of Malba's book The Man Who Counted.
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Raul Pompéia
Raul d'Ávila Pompeia (April 12, 1863 — December 25, 1895) was a Brazilian novelist, short story writer and chronicler. He is famous for the Impressionist romance O Ateneu.
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He is patron of the 33rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Pompeia was born in 1863, to Antônio d'Ávila Pompeia and Rosa Teixeira Pompeia. He ingressed in the Colégio Abílio, where he was a good student, and was the editor of school journal O Archote. In 1879, he was transferred to Colégio Pedro II, where he was developed as a orator and wrote his first book, Uma Tragédia no Amazonas.
In 1881 he moves to São Paulo in order to graduate in Law, where he was influenced by the Abolitionist and Republican ideals, and befriended Abolitionist Luís Gama. He wrote for many j -
Clare Winger Harris
Clare Winger Harris (January 18, 1891-October 16, 1968) was an early science fiction writer whose short stories were published during the 1920s. She is credited as the first woman to publish stories under her own name in science fiction magazines. Her stories often dealt with characters on the "borders of humanity" such as cyborgs.
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Harris began publishing in 1926, and soon became well liked by readers. She sold a total of eleven stories, which were collected in 1947 as Away From the Here and Now. Her gender was a surprise to Gernsback, the editor who first bought her work, as she was the first woman to publish science fiction stories under her own name. Her stories, which often feature strong female characters, have been occasionally reprint -
Lygia Fagundes Telles
Lygia Fagundes Telles (born April 19, 1923) is a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in São Paulo and is one of Brazil's most important living writers.
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Her first book of short stories, Praia Viva (Living Beach), was published in 1944. In 1949 got the Afonso Arinos award for her short stories book O Cacto Vermelho (Red Cactus). Among her most successful books are Ciranda de Pedra (The Marble Dance) (1954), Verão no Aquário (1963), Antes do Baile Verde (1970), Seminário dos Ratos (1977) and As Horas Nuas, (1989). The book Antes do Baile Verde won the Best Foreign Women Writers Grand Prix in Cannes (France) in 1969.
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Nísia Floresta
Nísia Floresta Brasileira Augusta, pseudônimo de Dionísia Gonçalves Pinto, (Papari, atual Nísia Floresta, 12 de outubro de 1810 — Rouen, França, 24 de abril de 1885) foi uma educadora, escritora e poetisa brasileira mais conhecida como Nísia Floresta.
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Primeira na educação feminista no Brasil, com protagonismo nas letras, no jornalismo e nos movimentos sociais. Defensora de ideais abolicionistas, republicanos e principalmente feministas, de consciência antecipadora para sua época, influenciou a prática educacional brasileira, rompendo limites do lugar social destinado à mulher.
Capaz de estabelecer um diálogo entre ideias europeias e o contexto brasileiro no qual viveu, dedicou obras e ensinos sobre a condição feminina e foi considerada pionei -
Andrés Trapiello
Andrés Trapiello, poeta y escritor español, nació en 1953 en Manzaneda de Torío, León.
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Después de estudiar Filosofía y Letras en la Universidad de Valladolid, donde también trabajó en el diario Pueblo, se trasladó en 1975 a Madrid, ciudad en la que vive desde entonces. De 1975 a 1977 trabajó como redactor en una revista de arte y de 1977 a 1980, también como redactor, en programas de arte y de literatura de Televisión Española.
En 1980 fundó y dirigió con Juan Manuel Bonet las Entregas y Libros de La Ventura, donde ese mismo año apareció Junto al agua, su primer libro de poemas.
En 1982 empezó a dirigir, con Valentín Zapatero, su fundador, la editorial Trieste en la que apareció ese año su segundo libro de poemas, Las tradiciones, al que sigui -
José Lins do Rego
José Lins do Rego Cavalcanti (July 3, 1901 in Pilar Paraíba - September 12, 1957 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian novelist most known for his semi-autobiographical "sugarcane cycle." These novels were the basis of films that had distribution in the English speaking world.
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Franklin Távora
João Franklin da Silveira Távora nasceu na cidade de Baturité-Ceará, no dia 13 de Janeiro de 1842. Seus pais eram Camilo Henrique da Silveira Távora e Maria de Santana da Silveira. Seus primeiros estudos foram em Fortaleza, capital do estado do Ceará, e em 1884 mudou-se com os pais para Pernambuco. Estudou em Goiana e Recife, e matriculou-se na faculdade de Direito em 1859. Formou-se advogado em 1863.
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Além desta profissão, durante sua trajetória de vida foi também jornalista, político, romancista e teatrólogo, chegou também a exercer alguns cargos públicos nas cidades onde residiu. Em 1874 transferiu-se para o Rio de Janeiro, onde trabalhou como funcionário da Secretaria do Império. Como jornalista, redigiu A Consciência Livre (1869 a 1870) -
Herberto Sales
Herberto Sales (Herberto de Azevedo Sales), jornalista, contista, romancista e memorialista, nasceu em Andaraí, BA, em 21 de setembro de 1917. Faleceu no dia 13 de agosto de 1999, no Rio de Janeiro.
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Filho de Heráclito Sousa Sales e Aurora de Azevedo Sales. Fez o curso primário em sua cidade natal, e o curso ginasial (abandonado no 5º ano) em Salvador, no colégio Antônio Vieira, dos jesuítas. O professor Agenor Almeida descobriu-lhe, numa prova, a vocação literária, chamando para isso a atenção do padre Cabral, que por sua vez foi o descobridor, alguns anos antes, no mesmo colégio, da vocação literária de Jorge Amado. Abandonados os estudos, voltou para Andaraí, onde viveu até 1948. Com a publicação, em 1944, de Cascalho, seu romance de estre -
Visconde de Taunay
Viscount of Taunay (Alfredo Maria Adriano d'Escragnolle Taunay), military engineer, professor, politician, historian, novelist, playwright, biographer, ethnologist and memoirist, was born in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, on February 22, 1843, and also died in Rio de Janeiro on January 25, 1899.
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He was the son of Félix Emílio Taunay, Baron de Taunay, and Gabriela de Robert d’Escragnolle. His grandfather, the famous painter Nicolau Antônio Taunay, was one of the heads of the French Artistic Mission of 1818 and his father was one of Pedro II's tutors and for a long time directed the National School of Fine Arts. On his maternal side, he was the grandson of the Count d’Escragnolle, who had emigrated from France due to the contingencies of the Revolution.
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Dias Gomes
Alfredo de Freitas Dias Gomes, mais conhecido pelo sobrenome Dias Gomes, foi um romancista, dramaturgo, autor de telenovelas e membro da Academia Brasileira de Letras.
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Cyro dos Anjos
Cyro dos Anjos (Ciro Versiani dos Anjos), jornalista, professor, cronista, romancista, ensaísta e memorialista, nasceu em Montes Claros (MG) em 5 de outubro de 1906, e faleceu no Rio de Janeiro (RJ) em 4 de agosto de 1994.
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Foi o 13º dos 14 filhos do casal Antônio dos Anjos e Carlota Versiani dos Anjos. Fez o curso primário em Montes Claros e começou seus estudos secundários, aos 13 anos, na Escola Normal da mesma cidade. Em fins de 1923, foi para Belo Horizonte, a fim de estudar humanidades e fazer o curso de Direito na Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, pela qual se formou em 1932. Durante os anos de faculdade, trabalhou como funcionário público e jornalista. Trabalhou no Diário da Tarde (1927); no Diário do Comércio (1928); no Diário da -
Narcisa Amália
Narcisa Amália de Campos (São João da Barra-RJ, 3 de abril de 1852 — Rio de Janeiro, 24 de julho de 1924) foi tradutora, poeta, escritora, crítica literária, jornalista brasileira e professora.
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Foi a primeira mulher a trabalhar como jornalista profissional no Brasil, além de abolicionista, republicana e feminista. Movida por forte sensibilidade social, combateu a opressão da mulher e o regime escravista.
Segundo Sílvia Paixão, “um dos raros nomes femininos que falam de identidade nacional” e busca sua própria identidade “numa poética uterina que imprime o retorno ao lugar de origem”.
Colaborou na revista A leitura (1894-1896) e, bem a frente de seu tempo, escreveu muitos artigos de cunho feminista e republicano -
Raduan Nassar
Raduan Nassar is a Brazilian writer, son of Lebanese immigrants. He moved to São Paulo when he was a teenager and studied Law and Philosophy at one of the most important universities in Brazil, the University of São Paulo. In 1970, he wrote A Cup of Rage, published in 1978. His literature debut happened in 1975 when Ancient Tillage was released. The Brazilian cinema adapted both of his books. In 1997, Menina a Caminho, a book of short stories written during the 60’s and 70’s, was released, although Raduan stopped writing in 1984. There's plenty of strength and lyricism in his literature style.
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Carlos Heitor Cony
Carlos Heitor Cony was a Brazilian journalist and writer. He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (Portuguese: Academia Brasileira de Letras).
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Euclides da Cunha
Euclides (archaic spelling Euclydes) da Cunha (January 20, 1866 – August 15, 1909) was a Brazilian writer, sociologist and engineer. His most important work is Os Sertões (Rebellion in the backlands), a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the Brazilian government against the rebellious village of Canudos, known as the War of Canudos. This book was a favorite of Robert Lowell, who put it above Tolstoy, the Russian writer.
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Euclides da Cunha was also heavily influenced by Naturalism and its Darwinian proponents. Os Sertões characterised the coast of Brazil as a chain of civilisations while the interior was more primitively influenced.
Euclides da Cunha was the basis for the character of The Journalist in Mario Vargas Ll -
Júlio Ribeiro
Júlio César Ribeiro Vaughan (April 16, 1845 – November 1, 1890) was a Brazilian Naturalist novelist, philologist, journalist and grammarian. He is famous for his controversial romance A Carne and for designing the flag of the State of São Paulo, which he wanted to be the flag of Brazil.
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He is patron of the 24th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.