Brazil

Antônio Xerxenesky

Antônio Xerxenesky was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1984. He is the author of the novel Areia nos dentes (2008), a postmodern Western, and the short story collection A página assombrada…...

Fernando Paiva was born in 1977 in Rio de Janeiro, where he still resides. He is the author of a novel, Carta para Ana Camerinda (Ibis Libris, 2004) and a collection of short stories, Salvem os monstros…...

Caio Fernando Abreu

Caio Fernando Abreu (1948–96) was born in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 1948. An award-winning journalist, writer, and dramatic adviser, he portrayed like no other the myriad contradictions of urban…...

João Paulo Cuenca

João Paulo Cuenca was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1978. He writes for several major Brazilian newspapers and magazines and has been a columnist for O Globo for many years. He has published…...

Mario Sabino

Mario Sabino was born in São Paulo in 1962. He is editor-in-chief of Veja, Brazil’s most influential weekly magazine. His second book, the collection of short stories, O Antinarciso (The Antinarcissist),…...

Angela Dutra de Menezes

Angela Dutra de Menezes is a writer and journalist. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, where she still lives. She worked at the newspaper O Globo and VEJA magazine before retiring to concentrate on fiction.…...

Pena Cabreira

Pena Cabreira was born in Pelotas, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, in 1953, and received the baptismal name of Lordsir Cabreira de Oliveira. A director of publicity films, television spots…...

Laurentino Gomes

Laurentino Gomes, a Brazilian journalist, is the author of 1808: how a mad queen, a fearful prince and a corrupt court deceived Napoleon and changed the History of Portugal and Brazil forever, last year's…...

Cristovão Tezza

Born in Lages, Santa Catarina, in 1952, Cristovão Tezza is one of the great writers from Curitiba, a city in the south of Brazil where he has lived since he was a boy. A university professor and…...

Machado de Assis

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is recognized by critics as Brazil's greatest writer. Among his novels, Dom Casmurro and The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas are acknowledged…...

Carlos Eduardo de Magalhães

Carlos Eduardo de Magalhães was born in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, in 1967. He is the author of seven books, includng the novels Pitanga (Grua, 2008), Dora (Ateli' Editorial, 2005),…...

Paula Parisot

Sérgio Rodrigues

Sérgio Rodrigues (Brazil, 1962) has worked as a journalist for most major newspapers and magazines in the country. For the last few years he has written a national column about the history of words…...

Millôr Fernandes

Millôr Fernandes is a journalist, humorist, cartoonist, and playwright.

João Anzanello Carrascoza

João Anzanello Carrascoza is a writer and advertising editor at JW Thompson in São Paulo. His short fiction "O Vaso Azul" won the Radio France Internationale Guimarães Rosa Prize from…...

Paulo Polzonoff Jr.

Paulo Polzonoff Jr. is a São Paulo-based writer and critic and author, most recently, of A Face Oculta de Novo York, a book of essays about New York City.

Manoel de Barros

Manoel de Barros is considered one of Brazil's most enduring and inventive twentieth century poets. The author of twenty collections of poetry, Barros has received numerous honors, including Brazil's…...

Augusta Faro

Augusta Faro was born in Goiânia, in the Brazilian state of Goiás, where she still lives. Her work draws from local legend and the oral tradition of Brazil's backlands, in which the fantastic…...

Paulo Henriques Britto

Paulo Henriques Britto was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1951. His third collection of poems, Trovar Claro, received Brazil's equivalent of the National Book Award from the Biblioteca Nacional, and his…...

Alberto Martins

Born in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, in 1958, Alberto Martins graduated with a degree in Brazilian, Portuguese, and English literature from the University of São Paulo in 1981. That year he…...

Carlos Machado

Carlos Machado was born in Curitiba, Brazil, in 1977. In 2000, he graduated in Language Studies (Portuguese and English) at UFPR (Parana State University). He has been teaching Brazilian literature…...

Milton Hatoum

Milton Hatoum (Manaus, 1952) is a writer, essayist and translator. He was a professor of French Literature at the University of Amazonas and a visiting professor at the University of California (Berkeley).…...

Rubem Fonseca

Rubem Fonseca is one of Brazil's most popular and distinguished novelists and screenwriters. He has written many novels including Bufo & Spallanzani and High Art, which was made into the film Exposure.…...

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