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José de Alencar (José Mariniano de Alencar)

Born: 01 MAY 1829 – Alencar, Ceará, Brazil

Died: 12 DEC 1877 – Rio de Janeiro

Type: Novelist

Achievements:

José Américo de Almeida

Born: 10 JAN 1887 – Areira, Paraíba, Brazil

Died: 10 MAR 1980

Type: – Prose writer, politician

Achievements:

  1. Intellectual of the Year (1977)

Jorge Amada

Born: 10 AUG 1912 – Ferradas, Bahía, Brazil

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Novelist

Achievements:

  1. Graça Aranha Foundation Prize (1936)
  2. Stalin Peace Prize (1951)
  3. Gulbenkian Prize (1971)
  4. Italian Latin-American Institute Prize (1976)
  5. Neruda Prize (1989)

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Born: 31 OCT 1902 – Itabíra do Mato Dentro, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Died: 17 AUG 1987

Type: Poet

Achievements:

  1. Brasília Prize for Literature (1975)

Mário de Andrade

Born: 09 OCT 1893 – São Paulo

Died: 02 FEB 1945 – São Paulo

Type: Prose writer, poet

Achievements:

  1. Co-founded the Municipal Department of Culture (1934-1937)
  2. Co-founded the Brazilian Society of Writers (1942)
  3. Founded Municipal Library (????)
  4. Founded Department of National Heritage (????)
  5. Founded the journal Revista do Arquivo Municipal de São Paulo (????)
  6. Founded São Paulo’s Ethnology and Folklore Society (????)

Oswald de Andrade

Born: 11 JAN 1890 – São Paulo

Died: 22 OCT 1954

Type: Prose writer, poet

Achievements:

  1. Founded O Pirralho (1911)

José Pereira de Graça Aranha

Born: 21 JUN 1868 – Maranhão State, Brazil

Died: ?? ??? 1931

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Co-founded the Brazilian Academy of Letters (1896)

Aluísio Azevedo

Born: 14 APR 1857 – São Louis, Maranhâo, Brazil

Died: 21 JAN 1913 – Buenos Aires

Type: Novelist

Achievement:

Manuel Bandeira

Born: 19 APR 1886 – Recife, Brazil

Died: 13 OCT 1968 – Rio de Janeiro

Type: Poet, literary translator

Achievements:

  1. Elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters (1946)

Alfonso Henriques de Lima Barreto

Born: ?? ??? 1881 – Rio de Janeiro

Died: ?? ??? 1922

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

Olavo Bilac

Born: 16 DEC 1865 – Rio de Janeiro

Died: ?? ??? 1918

Type: Poet

Achievements:

Agusto Boal

Born: 16 MAR 1931 – Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Playwright, drama theorist

Achievements:

Antônio de Castro Alves

Born: 14 MAR 1847 – Curralinho, Bahia, Brazil

Died: 06 JUL 1871

Type: Poet

Achievements:

Autran Dourado (Waldomiro Autran Dourado)

Born: 18 JAN 1926 – Patos, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Died: ?? ??? ???

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Goethe Literary Prize (Germany, 1982)

Adonias Filho

Born: 27 NOV 1915 – Lima de Aguiare, Itujuípe, Bahia, Brazil

Died: 04 AUG 1990 – Itajuípe

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Director of the newspaper A Noitre (????)
  2. Director of the National Theatre Service (????)
  3. Director of the National Library (????)
  4. Director of the National Institute of Books (????)
  5. Director of the National Press Agency (????)
  6. President of the Federal Culture Council (????)
  7. President of the Brazilian Press Association (????)
  8. Member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (???????)
  9. Paula Brito Prize (?)

Ruben Fonseca

Born: ?? ??? 1925 – Minas Gerais, Brazil

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Goethe Prize for Fiction (Brazil, 1985)

Gilberto Freyre

Born: 15 MAR 1900 – Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Died: 18 JUL 1987

Type: Sociologist, writer, polymath

Achievements:

  1. Founder of the Joaquim Nabuco Institute (Recife, 1949)
  2. Member of São Paulo Academy of Letters (1961)
  3. Member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (1962)
  4. Machado de Assis Prize (1963)
  5. Aspen Award (1967)
  6. La Madonnina International Literary Prize (Italy, 1969)
  7. José Vasconcelos Gold Medal (Mexico, 1974)
  8. Moinho Santista Prize (1974)
  9. Oder of the British Empire, Knight Commander (1971)
  10. Légion d’Honneur, Commander (1986)

Antônio Gonçalves Dias

Born: 10 AUG 1823 – Caxias, Maranhâo, Brazil

Died: 03 NOV 1864

Type: Poet

Achievements:




Bernardo Guimarães

Born: 15 AUG 1825 – Ouro Prêto, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Died: 10 MAR 1884

Type: Novelist, poet

Achievements:

João Guimarães Rosa

Born: 27 JUN 1908 – Cordisburgo, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Died: 19 NOV 1967

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Brazilian Academy of Letters Poety Prize (1936)
  2. Carmen Dolores Barbos Prize (1957)
  3. Paula Brito Prize (1957)

Ferreira Gullar

Born: ?? ??? 1930 – São Luis, Maranhão, Brazil

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Poet

Achievements:

Clarice Lispector

Born: 10 DEC 1925 – Tchetchelnik, Ukraine

Died: 09 DEC 1977

Type: Brazilian prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Graça Aranha Foundation Prize (1944)
  2. Sâo Paulo Carmen Dolores Barbosa Prize (1962)
  3. Golfinho de Ouro Prize (1969)

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Born: 21 JUN 1839 – Rio de Janeiro

Died: 29 SEP 1908

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Order of the Rose (1888)
  2. Founder and president of Academia Brasileira de Letras (1897-1908)

Cecília Meireles

Born: 07 NOV 1901 – Rio de Janeiro

Died: 09 NOV 1964 – Rio de Janeiro

Type: Poet

Achievements:

  1. Brazilian Academy of Letters Prize (1939)

João Cabral de Melo Neto

Born: 09 JAN 1920 – Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Poet

Achievements:

  1. Elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters (1968)
  2. Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1992)

Murilo Mendes

Born: ?? ??? 1901 – Minas Gerais, Brazil

Died: 15 AUG 1975 – Lisbon

Type: Poet

Achievements:

  1. Graça Aranha Foundation Prize (1972)
  2. Etna-Taormina International Prize for Poetry (1972)

Vinícius de Moraes

Born: ?? ??? 1913 – Rio de Janeiro

Died: ?? ??? 1980

Type: Poet

Achievements:

Nélida Piñón

Born: 03 MAY 1936 – Rio de Janeiro

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Elected to Ordem do Cruzeiro do Sul (????)
  2. Elected to Lazo de Dama de Isabel La Católica (????)
  3. Member of the Brazilian Academy (since 1989)
  4. Castelão Medal (????)
  5. Galícia Medal (????)

Rachel de Queiroz

Born: 17 NOV 1910 – Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer, literary translator, dramatist

Achievements:

  1. Graça Aranha Foundation Prize (1931)
  2. Felipe d’Oliviera Society Prize (1939)
  3. O Estado de São Paulo Saci Prize (1953)
  4. Academy Machado de Assis Prize (Brazil, 1957)
  5. National Book Institute Theatre Prize (1959)
  6. Paulo Prito Prize (1959)
  7. First Woman member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (1977)

Graciliano Ramos

Born: 27 OCT 1892 – Quebrângulo, Alagoas, Brazil

Died: 20 MAR 1953

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Director State Printing Office (1930-1933)
  2. Director Public Instruction (Alagoas, 1933-1936)
  3. President Brazilian Writers’ Association (1952)

José Lins do Rego

Born: 03 JUN 1901 – Paraíba State, Brazil

Died: 12 SEP 1957 – Rio de Janeiro

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Member of Brazilian Academy of Letters (1955)

João Ubaldo Ribeiro

Born: 23 JAN 1941 – Itaparia Island, All Saints Bay, Bahía, Brazil

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. State of Rio de Janeiro Golfinho de Ouro Prize (????)
  2. Brazilian Book Chamber Jabuti Prize (???? and ????)
  3. São Paulo Association of Arts Critics Award (?)
  4. Brazilian National Foundation for Literature for Young People Award (????)
  5. Gulbenkian Foundation Scholarship (Portugal, ????)
  6. Order of Merit Commander (Portugal, ????)

Sílvio Romero (Sílvio Vasconcelos da Silveira Ramos Romero)

Born: 21 APR 1851 – Lagarto, Sergipe, Brazil

Died: 17 JUL 1914

Type: Critic

Achievements:

  1. Founding member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (1897)

Sousândrade (Joaquim de Sousa Andrade)

Born: ?? ??? 1883 – Sâo Luis, Maranhão, Brazil

Died: ?? ??? 1902

Type: Poet

Achievements:

Lygia Fagundes Telles

Born: 19 APR 1923 – São Paulo

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Instituto Nacional de Livro Prize (1958)
  2. Guimarães Rosa (1972)
  3. Brazilian Academy of Letters Award (1973)
  4. Pedro Nava Award (1989)
  5. Member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (????)

Dalton Trevisan

Born: 14 JAN 1925 – Curitiba, Brazil

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Short story writer

Achievements:

  1. Founded the literary journal Joaquim (1946)
  2. Brazilian Book Chamber Award (????)
  3. Pen Club of Brazil Award (????)
  4. National Short Story Competition Award (????)

Enrico Veríssimo

Born: 17 DEC 1905 – Cruz Alta, Rio Grand do Sul, Brazil

Died: 28 NOV 1975 – Pôrto Alegre, Brazil

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Director of the Cultural Division of the Pan-American Union (Washington, DC, 1953-1956)
  2. National Celebration in his honor for the First: Brazilian writer to live by his pen; to gain best-seller status; and to attempt the modern, urban novel. (1972)




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