Brazil

José de Alencar (José Mariniano de Alencar)
Born: 01 MAY 1829 -- Alencar, Ceará, Brazil
Died: 12 DEC 1877 -- Rio de Janeiro
Type: Novelist
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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
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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
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Olavo Bilac
Born: 16 DEC 1865 -- Rio de Janeiro
Died: ?? ??? 1918
Type: Poet
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Agusto Boal
Born: 16 MAR 1931 -- Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil
Died: ?? ??? ????
Type: Playwright, drama theorist
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Antônio de Castro Alves
Born: 14 MAR 1847 -- Curralinho, Bahia, Brazil
Died: 06 JUL 1871
Type: Poet
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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
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Bernardo Guimarães
Born: 15 AUG 1825 -- Ouro Prêto, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Died: 10 MAR 1884
Type: Novelist, poet
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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
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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
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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
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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)