- 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:
- Intellectual of the Year (1977)
- Jorge Amada
- Born: 10 AUG 1912 – Ferradas, Bahía, Brazil
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Novelist
- Achievements:
- Graça Aranha Foundation Prize (1936)
- Stalin Peace Prize (1951)
- Gulbenkian Prize (1971)
- Italian Latin-American Institute Prize (1976)
- 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:
- 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:
- Co-founded the Municipal Department of Culture (1934-1937)
- Co-founded the Brazilian Society of Writers (1942)
- Founded Municipal Library (????)
- Founded Department of National Heritage (????)
- Founded the journal Revista do Arquivo Municipal de São Paulo (????)
- 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:
- Founded O Pirralho (1911)
- José Pereira de Graça Aranha
- Born: 21 JUN 1868 – Maranhão State, Brazil
- Died: ?? ??? 1931
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Director of the newspaper A Noitre (????)
- Director of the National Theatre Service (????)
- Director of the National Library (????)
- Director of the National Institute of Books (????)
- Director of the National Press Agency (????)
- President of the Federal Culture Council (????)
- President of the Brazilian Press Association (????)
- Member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (???????)
- Paula Brito Prize (?)
- Ruben Fonseca
- Born: ?? ??? 1925 – Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Goethe Prize for Fiction (Brazil, 1985)
- Gilberto Freyre
- Born: 15 MAR 1900 – Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
- Died: 18 JUL 1987
- Type: Sociologist, writer, polymath
- Achievements:
- Founder of the Joaquim Nabuco Institute (Recife, 1949)
- Member of São Paulo Academy of Letters (1961)
- Member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (1962)
- Machado de Assis Prize (1963)
- Aspen Award (1967)
- La Madonnina International Literary Prize (Italy, 1969)
- José Vasconcelos Gold Medal (Mexico, 1974)
- Moinho Santista Prize (1974)
- Oder of the British Empire, Knight Commander (1971)
- 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:
- Brazilian Academy of Letters Poety Prize (1936)
- Carmen Dolores Barbos Prize (1957)
- 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:
- Graça Aranha Foundation Prize (1944)
- Sâo Paulo Carmen Dolores Barbosa Prize (1962)
- 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:
- Order of the Rose (1888)
- 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:
- Brazilian Academy of Letters Prize (1939)
- João Cabral de Melo Neto
- Born: 09 JAN 1920 – Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Poet
- Achievements:
- Elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters (1968)
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1992)
- Murilo Mendes
- Born: ?? ??? 1901 – Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Died: 15 AUG 1975 – Lisbon
- Type: Poet
- Achievements:
- Graça Aranha Foundation Prize (1972)
- 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:
- Elected to Ordem do Cruzeiro do Sul (????)
- Elected to Lazo de Dama de Isabel La Católica (????)
- Member of the Brazilian Academy (since 1989)
- Castelão Medal (????)
- Galícia Medal (????)
- Rachel de Queiroz
- Born: 17 NOV 1910 – Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer, literary translator, dramatist
- Achievements:
- Graça Aranha Foundation Prize (1931)
- Felipe d’Oliviera Society Prize (1939)
- O Estado de São Paulo Saci Prize (1953)
- Academy Machado de Assis Prize (Brazil, 1957)
- National Book Institute Theatre Prize (1959)
- Paulo Prito Prize (1959)
- 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:
- Director State Printing Office (1930-1933)
- Director Public Instruction (Alagoas, 1933-1936)
- 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:
- 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:
- State of Rio de Janeiro Golfinho de Ouro Prize (????)
- Brazilian Book Chamber Jabuti Prize (???? and ????)
- São Paulo Association of Arts Critics Award (?)
- Brazilian National Foundation for Literature for Young People Award (????)
- Gulbenkian Foundation Scholarship (Portugal, ????)
- 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:
- 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:
- Instituto Nacional de Livro Prize (1958)
- Guimarães Rosa (1972)
- Brazilian Academy of Letters Award (1973)
- Pedro Nava Award (1989)
- Member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (????)
- Dalton Trevisan
- Born: 14 JAN 1925 – Curitiba, Brazil
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Short story writer
- Achievements:
- Founded the literary journal Joaquim (1946)
- Brazilian Book Chamber Award (????)
- Pen Club of Brazil Award (????)
- 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:
- Director of the Cultural Division of the Pan-American Union (Washington, DC, 1953-1956)
- 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)
- Born: 01 MAY 1829 – Alencar, Ceará, Brazil