Antonio Frederico Castro Alves, mais conhecido como Castro Alves, nasceu em Muritiba, BA, em 14 de março de 1847, e faleceu em Salvador, BA, em 6 de julho de 1871. É o patrono da cadeira n. 7, por esc…
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's…
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess …
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, pl…
José Mauro was born in Rio de Janeiro on February 26 of 1920. His family was very poor, and when he was still very young, he migrated to Natal where relatives took care of him. Entering the Medical Fa…
Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels are her most w…
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 w…
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. As a child Ramos lived in many cit…
Joaquim Manuel de Macedo (June 24, 1820 — April 11, 1882) was a Brazilian novelist, medician, teacher, playwright and journalist, famous for the romance A Moreninha.
A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust, published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scie…
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…
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short…
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 P…
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, se…
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…
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.
Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won t…
José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony…
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. He is patron of the 33rd chai…
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. …
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 nam…
José Pereira da Graça Aranha (June 21, 1868 – January 26, 1931) was a Brazilian writer and diplomat, considered to be a forerunner of the Modernism in Brazil. He was also one of the organizers of the …
Raphael Montes, born in 1990 in Rio de Janeiro, is Brazil’s most prominent thriller writer. He is best known for The Secret Dinner, a dark and provocative thriller set in Rio de Janeiro that has sold …
Maria Firmina dos Reis was born in São Luís do Maranhão, on October 11, 1825, "natural daughter" of the freed slave Leonor Felippa dos Reis, having as her grandmother the also freed slave Engrácia Rom…
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.
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 Uni…
Geni Núñez é escritora, ativista indígena guarani e psicóloga. Atualmente é pesquisadora de pós-doutorado no Instituto de Estudos Avançados da Universidade de São Paulo (IEA-USP). Tem doutorado no Pro…
