Angola

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

• Agostinho Neto
  Agostinho Neto
  António Agostinho Neto served as the first President of Angola , leading the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola in the war for independence and the civil war...
  
  
• Aires Almeida dos Santos
• Ana Paula Tavares
• José Eduardo Agualusa
  José Eduardo Agualusa
  José Eduardo Agualusa is an Angolan journalist and writer. He studied agronomy and silviculture in Lisbon, Portugal. He currently spends most of his time in Portugal, Angola and Brazil, working as a writer and journalist. His books have been translated into twenty languages...
  
  
• José de Fontes Pereira
  José de Fontes Pereira
  José de Fontes Pereira was a radical Angolan lawyer-journalist.-Career:Considered an early Angolan nationalist and assimilado, Pereira took advantage of a relatively free press in Angola from 1870-1890 to question Portuguese obligations and control over Angola...
  
  
• Kardo Bestilo
  Kardo Bestilo
  Kardo Bestilo is an Angolan writer, member of the Arts Movement born a year after the country independence from Portuguese invasion. He writes in Portuguese and English.- Books :* , edited by Europress Editores, 2006....
  
  
• Ondjaki
  Ondjaki
  Ndalu de Almeida is a writer from Angola, writing under the pen name Ondjaki. He lives in Luanda, the capital of the country, and has written poetry, children's books, short stories, novels, drama and film scripts....
  
  
• Pepetela
  Pepetela
  Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos is a major Angolan writer of fiction. He writes under the name Pepetela....
  
  
• Sousa Jamba
• Timóteo Ulika
• Uanhenga Xitu ou Mendes de Carvalho
• Viriato da Cruz
  Viriato da Cruz
  Viriato Clemente da Cruz, an Angolan poet and politician, was born in 1928 in Kikuvo, Porto Amboim, Portuguese Angola and died in Beijing, People's Republic of China on 13 June 1973....
  
  

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• Abgar Renault
• Adair Carvalhais Júnior
• Adélia Prado
  Adélia Prado
  Adélia Luzia Prado Freitas , is a Brazilian writer and poet.She was born in Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, and started writing at the age of 40 which is relatively late in life for a poet...
  
  
• Adolfo Caminha
  Adolfo Caminha
  Adolfo Ferreira Caminha was a Brazilian Naturalist novelist, famous for his polemical novel Bom-Crioulo, which deals with homosexuality.-Life:...
  
  
• Adriana Falcão
  Adriana Falcão
  Adriana Falcão is an Academy Award-nominated Brazilian screenwriter.-Life:Graduated in Architecture, but never exercised the function. Born in Rio, and moved to Recife at 11 years old...
  
  
• Adriana Lisboa
  Adriana Lisboa
  Adriana Lisboa is a Brazilian writer. She currently resides in the United States.She has published five novels, among which Symphony in White and Rakushisha , a book of short stories, a novella and three books for children.Among her honors are the José Saramago Award for Symphony in White, the...
  
  
• Adriana Lunardi
• Adriano Espínola
• Afonso Arinos
  Afonso Arinos
  -Works:* Os jagunços * Pelo sertão In the XIX th century, Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco was recognized as one of the most influential intellectuals of his time. His work is part of Brazils' most prestigious literature and contains a strong message of social criticism....
  
  
• Afonso Félix de Sousa
• Affonso Ávila
• Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
  Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
  Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna , is a Brazilian writer.-Background:He was a professor of Brazilian Literature at UCLA and the University of Texas at El Paso, and a writer for the O Globo newspaper. In 1971 he married Marina Colasanti, a Brazilian journalist and writer...
  
  
• Agrário de Meneses
• Alaíde Lisboa
• Alberto de Oliveira
  Alberto de Oliveira
  Antônio Mariano de Oliveira was a Brazilian poet, pharmacist and professor, more well-known by his pen name Alberto de Oliveira...
  
  
• Alberto Mussa
• Alcântara Machado
  Alcântara Machado
  Antônio Castilho de Alcântara Machado de Oliveira was a Brazilian journalist, politician and writer. He didn't take part of the Week of Modern Art in São Paulo, but even though wrote a great many modernist chronicles and short stories and also an unfinished novel.- Bibliography :* Terra Roxa*...
  
  
• Alcides Maia
• Alceu Wamosy
• Alphonsus de Guimarães
• Aluísio Azevedo
  Aluísio Azevedo
  Aluísio Tancredo Gonçalves de Azevedo was a Brazilian novelist, caricaturist, diplomat, playwright and short story writer. Initially a Romantic writer, he would later adhere to the Naturalist movement...
  
  
• Alvarenga Peixoto
  Alvarenga Peixoto
  Inácio José de Alvarenga Peixoto was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet and a lawyer. He wrote under the pen name Eureste Fenício.-Biography:Peixoto was born in Rio de Janeiro, to Simão Alvarenga Braga and Maria Braga...
  
  
• Álvares de Azevedo
  Álvares de Azevedo
  Manuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo was a Brazilian Romantic poet, short story writer, playwright and essayist...
  
  
• Américo Augusto de Sousa Falcão
• Ana Cristina César
  Ana Cristina César
  Ana Cristina César was a poet and translator from Rio de Janeiro. She came from a middle-class Protestant background and was usually known as "Ana C." She had written since childhood and developed a strong interest in English literature. She spent some time in England in 1968 and, on returning to...
  
  
• Ana Maria Machado
  Ana Maria Machado
  Ana Maria Machado was born in 1941 in Rio de Janeiro and is, alongside Lygia Bojunga Nunes and Ruth Rocha, one of the most significant children's book authors in Brazil. She started her career as a painter in Rio de Janeiro and New York City. After studying Romance languages she did a PhD with...
  
  
• Aníbal Machado
  Aníbal Machado
  Aníbal Machado is a Brazilian writer born in Sabará, Minas Gerais. He was president of the Brazilian Association of Writers and received numerous awards for his novels. He was also honored by the Academia Brasileira de Letras. He is the father of playwright Maria Clara Machado.-External links:...
  
  
• Antônio Bezerra
• Antônio Callado
  Antônio Callado
  Antônio Callado was a Brazilian journalist, playwright, and novelist. Born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Callado studied law, then worked as a journalist in London for the BBC's Brazilian Service from 1941 to 1947. Callado began writing fiction in the 1950s...
  
  
• Antônio de Castro Alves
• Antônio Sales
  Antonio Sales
  Antonio Sales is an American sprinter who specialises in the 200 metres. He currently in his junior year at the University of South Carolina....
  
  
• Araripe Jr.
• Artur Azevedo
  Artur Azevedo
  Artur Nabantino Gonçalves de Azevedo was a Brazilian playwright, short story writer, chronicler, journalist and Parnassian poet...
  
  
• Antonio Cícero
• Arnaldo Antunes
  Arnaldo Antunes
  Arnaldo Antunes , is a writer and composer from Brazil. He began as a member of the band Aguilar e Banda Performática in the late 1970s. For most of the 1980s he was a member of the rock band Titãs. After 1992 he had six solo albums. Since 1992 he has been an award winning poet, but he was first...
  
  
• Arthur Ramos
• Augusto de Campos
  Augusto de Campos
  Augusto de Campos is a Brazilian writer who was a founder of the Concrete poetry movement in Brazil. He is also a translator, music critic and visual artist....
  
  
• Augusto dos Anjos
  Augusto dos Anjos
  Augusto de Carvalho Rodrigues dos Anjos was a Brazilian poet and professor. His poems speak mostly of sickness and death, and are considered to forerun the Modernism in Brazil....
  
  
• Autran Dourado
  Autran Dourado
  Waldomiro Freitas Autran Dourado is a contemporary Brazilian novelist. He was born in the state of Minas Gerais. Going against current trends in Brazilian literature, Dourado's works display much concern with literary form, with many obscure words and expressions...
  
  
• Ariano Suassuna
  Ariano Suassuna
  Ariano Suassuna is a Brazilian playwright and author.He is in the "Movemento Amorial". He founded the Student Theater at Federal University of Pernambuco....
  
  

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• Basílio da Gama
  Basílio da Gama
  José Basílio da Gama was a Brazilian-born Portuguese poet and member of the Society of Jesus, famous for the epic poem O Uraguai...
  
  
• Bento Teixeira
  Bento Teixeira
  Bento Teixeira was a Portuguese poet. He is considered to be the introducer of Baroque in Brazil and the first Brazilian poet — however, this last affirmation is contested by many historians.-Life:...
  
  
• Bernadette Lyra
• Bolivar Soares
• Botelho de Oliveira
• Bruna Lombardi
  Bruna Lombardi
  Bruna Patrizia Maria Teresa Romilda Lombardi is a Brazilian poet, writer, model, and film and TV actress. She is daughter of Italian film producer Ugo Lombardi....
  
  

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• Caio Fernando Abreu
  Caio Fernando Abreu
  “Caio Fernando Loureiro de Abreu” , best known as “Caio Fernando Abreu” is one of the most influential and original Brazilian writers of the 70’s and 80’s generation...
  
  
• Capistrano de Abreu
  Capistrano de Abreu
  João Capistrano de Abreu was a Brazilian historian. His works are characterized by a rigorous investigation of the sources and a critical view of the historical process....
  
  
• Carlos de Laet
• Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  Carlos Drummond de Andrade was perhaps the most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th century. He has become something of a national poet; his poem "Canção Amiga" was printed on the 50 cruzados note...
  
  
• Carlos Heitor Cony
  Carlos Heitor Cony
  Carlos Heitor Cony is a journalist and author was born in Rio de Janeiro on March 14, 1926. He is classed as center-left and faced persecution under the military government in the 1960s. He is one of Brazil's leading journalists and novelists with ten of his works being filmed. He is a columnist at...
  
  
• Carlos Vaz
• Casimiro de Abreu
  Casimiro de Abreu
  Casimiro José Marques de Abreu was a Brazilian poet, novelist and playwright, adept of the "Ultra-Romanticism" movement...
  
  
• Cassiano Ricardo
  Cassiano Ricardo
  Cassiano Ricardo was a Brazilian journalist, literary critic, and poet.An exponent of the nationalistic tendencies of Brazilian modernism, he was associated with the Green-Yellow and Anta groups of the movement before launching the Flag group, a social-democratic reaction to these groups...
  
  
• Catulo da Paixão Cearense
• Cecília Meireles
  Cecília Meireles
  Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the Portuguese language, and is widely considered the best poetess from Brazil, though she combatted the word...
  
  
• César Leal
• Chico Buarque
  Chico Buarque
  Francisco Buarque de Hollanda , popularly known as Chico Buarque , is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet...
  
  
• Chico César
  Chico César
  Chico César is a Brazilian singer-composer-songwriter.-Albums:* Aos Vivos * Cuzcuz-Clã* Beleza Mano * Mama Mundi * Respeitem meus cabelos, brancos...
  
  
• Coelho, Paulo
• Clarice Lispector
  Clarice Lispector
  Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist...
  
  
• Clarice Pacheco
• Cleo Martins
• Conrad Rose
• Coriolano de Azevedo
• Cornélio Pena
• Cristiane Grando
• Cruz e Sousa

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• Dalton Trevisan
  Dalton Trevisan
  Dalton Jérson Trevisan is a Brazilian author of short stories. He has been described as an "acclaimed short-story chronicler of lower-class mores and popular dramas."...
  
  
• Dau Bastos
• Dias Gomes
  Dias Gomes
  Alfredo de Freitas Dias Gomes was an important Brazilian playwright.He was born on October 19, 1922 in Salvador, Bahia and died in a car accident in São Paulo, in 1999. He started writing plays at age 15 and later wrote soap operas. He wrote the first ever colored soap opera in Brazilian...
  
  
• Dionélio Machado
• Deoscoredes M. dos Santos
• Daniel Matos
• Darcy Ribeiro
  Darcy Ribeiro
  Darcy Ribeiro was a Brazilian anthropologist, author and politician. Darcy Ribeiro's ideas of Latin American identity have influenced several later scholars of Latin American studies...
  
  
• Décio Pignatari
  Décio Pignatari
  Décio Pignatari is a Brazilian poet, essayist and translator.Since the 1950s, conducting experiments with poetic language, incorporating visuals elements and the fragmentation of words...
  
  
• Deny Gomes
• Domingos Pellegrini
• Drauzio Varella
  Drauzio Varella
  Drauzio Varella, MD, is a Brazilian physician, educator, scientist and noted medical science popularizer in the press and TV, as well as best-selling author...
  
  

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• Edson Carneiro
• Elisa Lucinda
• Elly Herkenhoff
• Érico Veríssimo
  Erico Verissimo
  Erico Verissimo was an important Brazilian writer, born in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. His father, Sebastião Veríssimo da Fonseca, heir of a rich family in Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, met financial ruin during his son's youth...
  
  
• Erlon Paschoal
• Erly Vieira Jr.
• Euclides da Cunha
  Euclides da Cunha
  Euclides da Cunha was a Brazilian writer, sociologist and engineer. His most important work is Os Sertões , a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the Brazilian government against the rebellious village of Canudos, known as the War of Canudos...
  
  

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• Fagundes Varela
  Fagundes Varela
  Luís Nicolau Fagundes Varela was a Brazilian Romantic poet, adept of the "Ultra-Romanticism" movement. He is patron of the 11th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.-Biography:...
  
  
• Fernando Bonassi
• Fernando Sabino
  Fernando Sabino
  Fernando Sabino was a Brazilian writer and journalist.Sabino was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, where he lived until he was twenty, when he moved to Rio de Janeiro....
  
  
• Fernando Gabeira
  Fernando Gabeira
  Fernando Paulo Nagle Gabeira is a Brazilian politician, author and journalist. He has been a federal deputy for the State of Rio de Janeiro since 1995....
  
  
• Ferreira Gullar
  Ferreira Gullar
  Ferreira Gullar is the pen name for José Ribamar Ferreira , Brazilian poet, playwright, essayist, art critic, and television writer...
  
  
• Ferréz
  Ferréz
  Ferréz is a Brazilian author, rapper, cultural critic and activist from the Zona Sul favela of Capão Redondo in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a member and leader of the literary group Literatura Marginal that emerged during the late 1990s and early 2000s from the urban periphery of São Paulo...
  
  
• Flávio Carneiro
  Flávio Carneiro
  Flávio Carneiro is a Brazilian writer. Born in Goiânia in 1962, he moved to Rio de Janeiro in the early 1980s and relocated to the mountain city of Teresópolis, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in 2003...
  
  
• Francisca Júlia
• Francisco Aurélio Ribeiro
• Francisco Bosco
• Fabio Eduardo Pinella

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• Gesiel Júnior
• Gilberto Freyre
  Gilberto Freyre
  Gilberto de Mello Freyre was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter and congressman. His best-known work is a sociological treatise named Casa-Grande & Senzala...
  
  
• Gilka Machado
  Gilka Machado
  Gilka Machado was a Brazilian poet.Machado started to write poetry as a child. As an adult, she supported her family by working for the Rio Railway Company.-Works:* Cristais partidos [Broken Crystals], 1915...
  
  
• Gilson Barreto
• Gonçalves de Magalhães
  Gonçalves de Magalhães
  Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães, Viscount of Araguaia was a Brazilian poet, playwright, medician and diplomat...
  
  
• Gonçalves Dias
• Graciliano Ramos
  Graciliano Ramos
  Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira was a Brazilian Post-Modernist writer, politician and journalist. In most of his novels he depicts the precarious situation of the poor inhabitants of the Brazilian sertão.-Life:Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira was born in the city of Quebrangulo, in the Brazilian State...
  
  
• Graça Aranha
  Graça Aranha
  José Pereira da Graça Aranha 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 Brazilian Modern Art Week of 1922....
  
  
• Gregório de Matos Guerra
• Guilherme Santos Neves
• Gustavo Barroso
  Gustavo Barroso
  Gustavo Dodt Barroso was a Brazilian writer and politician associated with Brazilian Integralism.- Biography :He was half German by birth, his mother coming from Württemberg....
  
  

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• Hamilton Faria
• Harry Laus
• Hélio Melo
• Hélio Pellegrino
• Herbert Daniel
• Hermeto Lima
• Hilda Hilst
  Hilda Hilst
  Hilda de Almeida Prado Hilst, more widely known as Hilda Hilst was a Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist, whose fiction and poetry were generally based upon delicate intimacy and often insanity and supernatural events. Particularly her late works belong to the tradition of magic realism.-Early...
  
  
• Hilda Simões Lopes Costa
• Huberto Rohden
  Huberto Rohden
  Huberto Rohden Sobrinho, known as Huberto Rohden, was a Brazilian philosopher, educator and theologist.He was born in São Ludgero....
  
  

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• Júlio Salusse
• Josué Guimarães
• João do Rio
  João do Rio
  João do Rio was the pseudonym of the Brazilian journalist, short-story writer and playwright João Paulo Emilio Cristóvão dos Santos Coelho Barreto, a Brazilian author and journalist of African descent...
  
  
• João Cabral de Melo Neto
  João Cabral de Melo Neto
  João Cabral de Melo Neto was born in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, and is considered one of the greatest Brazilian poets of all time.He is often quoted saying "I try not to perfume the flower"...
  
  
• João Gilberto Noll
  João Gilberto Noll
  João Gilberto Noll is a Brazilian writer, born on April 15, 1946 in Porto Alegre, in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. His early years were spent studying at the Catholic Colégio São Pedro...
  
  
• João Guimarães Rosa
  João Guimarães Rosa
  João Guimarães Rosa was a Brazilian novelist, considered by many to be one of the greatest Brazilian novelists born in the 20th century. His best-known work is the novel Grande Sertão: Veredas...
  
  
• João Pedro Roriz
• João Simões Lopes Neto
  João Simões Lopes Neto
  João Simões Lopes Neto was a Brazilian regionalist writer of Rio Grande Do Sul born March 9, 1865. After some unsuccessful business ventures he married at 27. He only wrote four works of note, but nevertheless had a strong importance to Brazilian regionalist writing...
  
  
• João Ubaldo Ribeiro
  João Ubaldo Ribeiro
  João Ubaldo Ribeiro is a Brazilian author born in Itaparica, Bahia on January 23, 1941. In the English speaking world his An Invincible Memory has been highly praised...
  
  
• Joaquim de Sousa Andrade
  Joaquim de Sousa Andrade
  Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, better known by his pseudonym Sousândrade , was a Brazilian poet, adept of the "Condorist" movement...
  
  
• Jocenir
• Jorge Amado
  Jorge Amado
  Jorge Leal Amado de Faria was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school. He was the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and her Two Husbands in 1978...
  
  
• José de Alencar
  José de Alencar
  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, regionalist and Indianist romances — being the most famous The Guarani...
  
  
• Jorge Fernando dos Santos
• José J. Veiga
• José Lins do Rego
  José Lins do Rego
  José Lins do Rego Cavalcanti was a Brazilian novelist most known for his semi-autobiographical "sugarcane cycle." These novels were the basis of films that had distribution in the English speaking world...
  
  
• Julio Cézar Ribeiro Vaughan
• Jô Soares
  Jô Soares
  José Eugênio Soares, best known as Jô Soares is a Brazilian comedian, talk show host, author, theatrical producer, director, actor, painter and musician. Soares was born in Rio de Janeiro...
  
  
• Juvenal Galeno

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• L. G. Ribeiro Gonçalves
• Leo Vaz
  Leo Vaz
  Leo Vaz , writer, teacher and journalist in Brazil. He was the author of novels and short stories with a satirical strokes- Biography :Leonel Vaz de Barros was an early teenager...
  
  
• Leonardo de Moraes
• Leonardo Mota
• Leônidas de Albuquerque
• Ligia Assunção Amaral
• Lima Barreto
  Lima Barreto
  Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto was a Brazilian novelist and journalist. A major figure on the Brazilian Pre-Modernism, he is famous for the novel Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma, a bitter satire of the first years of the República Velha in Brazil.-Life:Lima Barreto was born in Rio de Janeiro in...
  
  
• Lívia Santana
• Lúcia Benedetti
  Lúcia Benedetti
  Lucia Benedetti - was a storyteller writer of Children's Literature novelist playwright, chronicler and translator brazilian -Biography:...
  
  
• Luís Fernando Veríssimo
  Luis Fernando Verissimo
  Luís Fernando Veríssimo is a Brazilian writer.Verissimo is the son of Brazilian writer Erico Verissimo and lived with his father in the United States during his childhood....
  
  
• Luiz Alberto Mendes
• Luiz Eurico Tejera Lisbôa
• Lygia Fagundes Telles
  Lygia Fagundes Telles
  Lygia Fagundes Telles is a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in São Paulo and is one of Brazil's most important living writers....
  
  

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• Maciel Monteiro
• Machado de Assis
• Manuel Bandeira
  Manuel Bandeira
  Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho was a poet, literary critic, and translator.Bandeira wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose. In 1904, he found out that he suffered from tuberculosis, which encouraged him to move from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, because of Rio's tropical beach weather...
  
  
• Manuel de Barros
• Márcio Souza
  Márcio Souza
  Márcio Souza is a Brazilian writer, recognized for his focus on Amazonia.-Fiction:*Galvez – Imperador do Acre *Operação Silêncio *Mad Maria *A Resistível Ascensão do Boto Tucuxi...
  
  
• Maria José Dupré
  Maria José Dupré
  Maria José Dupré, also known as Sra Leandro Dupré , was one of the most popular and prolific Brazilian writers of the 1940s and 1950s.-Early life:...
  
  
• Maria Teresa Elisa Böbel
• Mário de Andrade
  Mário de Andrade
  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 poetry with the publication of his Paulicéia Desvairada in 1922...
  
  
• Mário Faustino
• Mário Quintana
  Mario Quintana
  Mario de Miranda Quintana , was a Brazilian writer and translator. He became known as the poet of "simple things", and his style is marked by irony, profundity and technical perfection. The main themes of his poetry include death, the lost childhood and time...
  
  
• Menotti del Picchia
  Menotti Del Picchia
  Paulo Menotti Del Picchia was a Brazilian poet, journalist, and painter. He is associated with the Generation of 1922, the first generation of Brazilian modernists....
  
  
• Michel Melamed
• Miguel M. Abrahão
  Miguel M. Abrahão
  Miguel Martins Abrahão is a prolific Brazilian writer and dramatist, author of numerous plays and books.- Life :Born in São Paulo, Brazil, on January 25, 1961, Miguel M...
  
  
• Miguel Jorge
• Miguel Marvilla
• Millôr Fernandes
  Millôr Fernandes
  Millôr Fernandes is a Brazilian cartoonist, humorist and playwright.He was born in Rio de Janeiro, and started his journalistic career already in 1938, publishing in several Brazilian magazines....
  
  
• Mino Carta
  Mino Carta
  Mino Carta, pseudonym of Demetrio Giuliano Gianni Carta is an Italian-born Brazilian journalist, publisher and writer...
  
  
• Moacir Japiassu
• Moacir Scliar
• Murilo Mendes
  Murilo Mendes
  Murilo Mendes was an exponent of Modernist poetry in Brazil. He lived in Europe twice and died in Lisbon. His greatest connection in Europe though was to Rome...
  
  
• Murilo Rubião
  Murilo Rubião
  Murilo Rubião was a Brazilian writer. He was born in Carmo de Minas city, state of Minas Gerais.His entire work consists of short stories, all of them dealing with fantastic themes, which is uncommon among Brazilian writers...
  
  

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• Paulo Aquarone
  Paulo Aquarone
  Paulo de Tarso Aquarone is a multimedia Brazilian poet.- Work :* “Poemas Soltos de Mim” ,* “Poemas que Eu Fiz” ,* “Poemas que Vagam” ,* “Poemas de Outono” ,* “Poemas que Eu Conto” ,...
  
  
• Paulo Freire
  Paulo Freire
  Paulo Reglus Neves Freire was a Brazilian educator and influential theorist of critical pedagogy.-Biography:...
  
  
• Paulo Leminski
  Paulo Leminski
  Paulo Leminski Filho was a Brazilian poet and writer. He took pride in being of mixed Polish and African descent....
  
  
• Paulo Lins
  Paulo Lins
  Paulo Lins is a Brazilian author.Lins grew up in Rio de Janeiro and at the age of seven moved to the Cidade de Deus favela. He escaped the cycle of violence to become a successful writer....
  
  
• Paulo Mendes Campos
  Paulo Mendes Campos
  Paulo Mendes Campos , was a Brazilian writer and journalist.Born in Minas Gerais, was the son of the physician and writer Mario Mendes Campos and D...
  
  
• Paulo Pontes
• Paulo Roberto Sodré
• Pedro Nava
  Pedro Nava (writer)
  Pedro da Silva Nava was a Brazilian writer., medicina.ufmg.br , Retrieved July 14, 2011-Works:*Baú de Ossos*Balão Cativo*Chão-de-Ferro*Beira-Mar*Galo-das-Trevas*O Círio Perfeito-References:...
  
  
• Plínio Marcos

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• Rachel de Queiroz
  Rachel de Queiroz
  Rachel de Queiroz was a Brazilian author and journalist....
  
  
• Raduan Nassar
  Raduan Nassar
  Raduan Nassar is a Brazilian writer. The son of Lebanese immigrants, he moved to São Paulo when he was a teenager. He studied Law and Philosophy at one of the most important universities in Brazil, the University of São Paulo.In 1970, he wrote Um Copo de Cólera, published in 1978...
  
  
• Raul Bopp
  Raul Bopp
  Raul Bopp was a Brazilian poet and diplomat. He did diplomatic work in Japan and was a friend of Oswald de Andrade. Hence his Cobra Norato is an example of work based in the Manifesto Antropófago. In 1977 he won the Prêmio Machado de Assis.- References :...
  
  
• Raul de Leoni
• Raul Pompéia
  Raul Pompéia
  Raul d'Ávila Pompeia was a Brazilian novelist, short story writer and chronicler. He is famous for the Impressionist romance O Ateneu.He is patron of the 33rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.-Biography:...
  
  
• Reginaldo Prandi
• Reinaldo Santos Neves
• Renard Perez
• Renata Palottini
• Renato Pacheco
• Ryoki Inoue
  Ryoki Inoue
  Ryoki Inoue is a Brazilian writer, acknowledged by the Guinness World Records as world's most prolific writer: since he began his career in 1986, he had 1075 books published — under his own name or 39 pseudonyms....
  
  
• Roberto Drummond
  Roberto Drummond
  Roberto Francis Drummond was a Brazilian journalist and writer.-Works:*A morte de DJ em Paris *O dia em que Ernest Hemingway morreu crucificado *Sangue de coca-cola...
  
  
• Rodolfo Teófilo
  Rodolfo Teófilo
  Marcos Rodolfo Teófilo was a Brazilian writer, poet and film-maker.-References:...
  
  
• Rodrigo Lacerda
• Ronaldo Cagiano Barbosa
• Rubem Alves
  Rubem Alves
  Rubem Azevedo Alves, is a Brazilian theologian, philosopher, educator, writer, and psychoanalyst.Alves was born in Boa Esperança, Minas Gerais...
  
  
• Rubem Braga
  Rubem Braga
  Rubem Braga was a notable Brazilian writer of short stories. He was born in Cachoeiro de Itapemirim city, state of Espírito Santo, on January 12, 1913....
  
  
• Rubem Fonseca
  Rubem Fonseca
  Rubem Fonseca is a Brazilian writer.He was born in Juiz de Fora, in the state of Minas Gerais, but he has lived most of his life in Rio de Janeiro. In 1952, he started his career as a low-level cop and, later became a police commissioner, one of the highest ranks in the civil police of Brazil...
  
  
• Rui Barbosa
• Ruth Rocha

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• Santiago Nazarian
• Sérgio Blank
• Sérgio Borja
• Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda
  Sergio Buarque de Hollanda
  Sérgio Buarque de Holanda was an important Brazilian writer, journalist, historian and member of the .In 1921, he moved with his family to Rio de Janeiro...
  
  
• Sérgio Jockymann
• Sérgio Sant'Anna
  Sérgio Sant'Anna
  Sérgio Sant'Anna is a Brazilian writer, born in 1941 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. He has written poems, plays, short stories, novelas and novels...
  
  
• Silviano Santiago
• Sousândrade

Cape Verde

Cape Verde

The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...

• Amílcar Cabral
  Amílcar Cabral
  Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral was a Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, writer, and a nationalist thinker and politician. Also known by his nom de guerre Abel Djassi, Cabral led the nationalist movement of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde Islands and the ensuing war of independence...
  
  
• Germano Almeida
  Germano Almeida
  Germano Almeida is a Cape Verde author and lawyer. Born on the Cape island Boa Vista, Almeida studied law in Lisbon and currently practices in Mindelo. His novels have been translated into several languages...
  
  
• Jorge Barbosa
  Jorge Barbosa
  Jorge Vera-Cruz Barbosa was a Cape Verdean poet and writer. He collaborated in various reviews and Portuguese and Cape Verdean journals. The publication of his poetry anthology Arquipélago in 1935 marked the beginning of Capeverdean poetry...
  
  
• Onésimo Silveira
  Onésimo Silveira
  -Biography:As a young poet, Silveira was one of the most prominent critiques of the literary elite in Cape Verde. Silveira was associated with the views o f the Claridade group, and argued in favour of an African cultural identity of the islands....
  
  
• Orlanda Amarílis
  Orlanda Amarílis
  Orlanda Amarílis Lopes Rodrigues Fernandes Ferreira, known as Orlanda Amarílis , is a Cape Verdean writer...
  
  
• Viriato de Barros
  Viriato de Barros
  Viriato de Barros is a Cape Verdean writer. He is an author of several works:-External links:*http://www.multiculturas.com/viriato_barros.htm...
  
  

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• Ricardo Carvalho Calero
  Ricardo Carvalho Calero
  Ricardo Carvalho Calero was a Spanish philologist, academic and writer. He was the first Professor of Galician Language and Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He was one of the main theorists of contemporary reintegracionism and his works on this field are considered a primary...
  
  
• Afonso D. Rodrigues Castelao
• Rosalia de Castro
  Rosalía de Castro
  María Rosalía Rita de Castro , was a Galician romanticist writer and poet.Writing in the Galician language, after the Séculos Escuros , she became an important figure of the Galician romantic movement, known today as the Rexurdimento , along with Manuel Curros Enríquez and Eduardo Pondal...
  
  
• Curros Henriques
  Manuel Curros Enríquez
  Manuel Curros Enríquez was a Galician writer and journalist in the Galician language, and is considered to be one of the leading figures of Galician culture and identity.-Early life:...
  
  

Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau

The Republic of Guinea-Bissau is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Senegal to the north, and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west....

• Abdulai Silá
  Abdulai Silá
  Abdulai Silá , , is a Guinea-Bissauan engineer, economist, social researcher and writer....
  
  
• Amílcar Cabral
  Amílcar Cabral
  Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral was a Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, writer, and a nationalist thinker and politician. Also known by his nom de guerre Abel Djassi, Cabral led the nationalist movement of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde Islands and the ensuing war of independence...
  
  
• Domingas Sami
• Filomena Embaló
• Vasco Cabral

Mozambique

Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...

• Albino Magaia
• Armando Artur
• Calane da Silva
• Carlos Cardoso
  Carlos Cardoso
  Carlos Cardoso was a Mozambican journalist. His murder in 2000 followed his newspaper's investigation into corruption in the privatisation of Mozambique's biggest bank.-Early life:...
  
  
• Clotilde Silva
• Eduardo White
• Elton Rebello
• Guita Jr.
• Gulamo Khan
• Hélder Muteia
• Heliodoro Baptista
• João Paulo Borges Coelho
  João Paulo Borges Coelho
  João Paulo Borges Coelho is a Mozambican historian and writer. He studied history in Maputo and was awarded a PhD in economic and social history from the University of Bradford...
  
  
• José Craveirinha
  José Craveirinha
  José Craveirinha , was born in Maputo, Mozambique and is today considered the greatest poet of that country....
  
  
• Jorge Viegas
• Leite de Vasconcelos
• Lília Momplé
  Lília Momplé
  Lília Maria Clara Carrièrre Momplé is a Mozambican writer.-Biography:Lília Momplé was born on the Island of Mozambique, into a family of mixed ethnic origins, including Makua, French, Indian, Chinese, and Mauritian...
  
  
• Lina Magaia
  Lina Magaia
  Lina Magaia was a Mozambican writer, journalist and veteran of the war for the independence of Mozambique. It was a woman of many facets, which stood out during the life in areas such as writing, film, rural development, or even as a soldier of the liberation of the country from colonial rule.Lina...
  
  
• Luís Bernardo Honwana
  Luis Bernardo Honwana
  -Biography:Luís Bernado Honwana was born Luís Augusto Bernardo Manuel in Lourenço Marques , Mozambique. His parents, Raúl Bernardo Manuel and Naly Jeremias Nhaca, belonged to the Ronga people from Moamba, a town about 55 km northwest of Maputo.He studied law in Portugal and worked for some...
  
  
• Luís Carlos Patraquim
• Marcelino dos Santos
  Marcelino dos Santos
  Marcelino dos Santos is a Mozambican poet, revolutionary, and statesman. As a young man he travelled to Portugal, and Paris, France for an education. He was a founding member of the Frente de Libertacao de Mocambique , in 1962; and served as the party's deputy president from 1969 to 1977...
  
  
• Marcelo Panguana
• Mia Couto
  Mia Couto
  António Emílio Leite Couto , better known as Mia Couto, is a world-renowned Mozambican writer.-Early years:Couto was born in the city of Beira, Mozambique’s second largest city, where he was also raised and schooled. He is the son of Portuguese emigrants who moved to the former Portuguese colony in...
  
  
• Noémia de Sousa
  Noémia de Sousa
  Carolina Noémia Abranches de Sousa Soares was a poet from Mozambique who wrote in the Portuguese language. She is also known as Vera Micaia. She is of mixed Portuguese and Bantu descent....
  
  
• Orlando Mendes (1916–1990), novelist.
• Paulina Chiziane
  Paulina Chiziane
  Paulina "Poulli" Chiziane is an author of novels and short stories in the Portuguese language. She studied at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo. She was born to a Protestant family that moved from Gaza to the capital Maputo during the writer's early childhood...
  
  
• Reinaldo Ferreira
• Rui de Noronha
• Rui Knopfli
• Suleimane Cassamo
• Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa
  Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa
  Francisco Esaú Cossa is a Mozambican writer born August 1, 1957, in Inhaminga, Sofala Province....
  
  

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• Abel Botelho
  Abel Botelho
  Abel Acácio de Almeida Botelho , born in Tabuaço and deceased in Argentina, was a Portuguese military officer and diplomat, but distinguish himself as a writer. In 1911, he took part on the commission which chose and approved the draft for what would be the current flag of Portugal.-References:...
  
  
• Afonso Lopes Vieira
• Al Berto
  Al Berto
  Al Berto was the pseudonym used by the Portuguese poet Alberto Raposo Pidwell Tavares .-Works:*À Procura do Vento num Jardim d'Agosto, 1977.*Meu Fruto de Morder, Todas as Horas, 1980....
  
  
• Alberto Pimenta
• Albino Forjaz Sampaio
• Alberto Pimentel
• Alexandre Herculano
  Alexandre Herculano
  Alexandre Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo , was a Portuguese novelist and historian.-Early life:...
  
  
• Alexandre Maria Pinheiro Torres
• Almada Negreiros
  Almada Negreiros
  José Sobral de Almada Negreiros was a Portuguese artist. He was born in the then colony of São Tomé e Príncipe, the son of a Portuguese father, António Lobo de Almada Negreiros, and a Santomean mother, Elvira Freire Sobral...
  
  
• Almeida Garrett
  Almeida Garrett
  João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, Viscount of Almeida Garrett was a Portuguese poet, playwright, novelist and politician. He is considered to be the introducer of the Romanticism in Portugal, with the epic poem Camões, based on the life of Luís de Camões...
  
  
• Álvaro de Brito Pestana
• Alves Redol
  Alves Redol
  António Alves Redol was one of the most influential Portuguese neorealist writers. Redol was born in Vila Franca de Xira, an industrial zone near Lisbon. In 1927 he finished school, and in the next year travelled to Angola , where he stayed for three years...
  
  
• Ana Saldanha
• Antero de Quental
  Antero de Quental
  Antero Tarquínio de Quental , old spelling Anthero, , a Portuguese poet, philosopher and writer, whose works became a milestone in the Portuguese language, alongside those of Camões or Bocage....
  
  
• António Alçada Baptista
• António Botto
  António Botto
  António Botto was a Portuguese aesthete and modernist poet.- Early life :...
  
  
• António Caetano de Sousa
• António Feijó
• António Feliciano de Castilho
  Antonio Feliciano de Castilho
  António Feliciano de Castilho, 1st Viscount of Castilho , Portuguese man of letters, born at Lisbon.He lost his sight at the age of six, but the devotion of his brother Augusto, and aided by a retentive memory, enabled him to go through his school and university course with success; and he acquired...
  
  
• António Gomes Leal
• António Gonçalves de Bandarra
  António Gonçalves de Bandarra
  António Gonçalves Annes Bandarra or Gonçalo Anes Bandarra was a Portuguese writer and prophet.- Life and work :...
  
  
• António Lobo Antunes
  António Lobo Antunes
  António Lobo Antunes, GCSE, MD ; born 1 September 1942) is a Portuguese novelist and medical doctor.-Life and career:António Lobo Antunes was born in Lisbon as the eldest of six sons of João Alfredo de Figueiredo Lobo Antunes , prominent Neurologist and Professor, close collaborator of Egas Moniz,...
  
  
• António Mota
  Antonio Mota
  Antonio José Mota Romero is a former Mexican football goalkeeper, who played for the Mexico national team between 1961 and 1970. He was part of the Mexico squad for the 1962 and 1970 world cups....
  
  
• António Nobre
  António Nobre
  António Pereira Nobre was a Portuguese poet. He died of tuberculosis in Foz do Douro, Porto, in 1900, after trying to recover in a number of places. His masterpiece Só , was the only book he published.-Northern Portugal:Nobre was a member of a wealthy family...
  
  
• António Quadros
• António Vicente Campinas
  António Vicente Campinas
  António Vicente Campinas is a Portuguese poet from Algarve. His works include the book Raiz da Serenidade. He is especially famous for his poem "Cantar Alentejano", in honor of Catarina Eufémia. The poem, with music by José Afonso, is on the album "Cantigas de Maio", released on Christmas Day,...
  
  
• António Viriato Ferreira
• António Vieira
  António Vieira
  Father António Vieira was a Portuguese Jesuit and writer, the "prince" of Catholic pulpit-orators of his time.-Life:Vieira was born in Lisbon to Cristóvão Vieira Ravasco, the son of a mulatto woman, and Maria de Azevedo. Accompanying his parents to Brazil in 1614, he received his education at the...
  
  
• Arménio Gomes dos Santos
• Armindo José Rodrigues

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• Camilo Castelo Branco
  Camilo Castelo Branco
  Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo-Branco,1st Viscount de Correia Botelho , was a prolific Portuguese writer of the 19th century, having authored over 260 books . His writing is, overall, considered original in that it combines the dramatic and sentimental spirit of Romanticism with a highly personal...
  
  
• Carlos Malheiro Dias
• Carlos Augusto Amaral Dias
• Conde d'Aurora
• Cristovam Pavia
• Christovão Falcão
  Christovão Falcão
  Christovão Falcão , sometimes Christovão Falcão de Sousa or Christovão de Sousa Falcão, was a Portuguese poet, that came of a noble family settled at Portalegre in the Alentejo, which had originated with John Falcon or Falconet, one of the Englishmen who went to Portugal in 1386 in the suite of...
  
  

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• Fernanda de Castro
• Fernanda Seno
• Fernando Augusto de Freitas Motta Luso Soares
• Fernando Guedes
• Fernando Monteiro de Castro Soromenho
• Fernando Namora
• Fernando Pessoa
  Fernando Pessoa
  Fernando Pessoa, born Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa , was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic and translator described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language.-Early years in Durban:On 13 July...
  
  
• Fernão Lopes
  Fernão Lopes
  Fernão Lopes was a Portuguese chronicler appointed by King Edward of Portugal. Fernão Lopes wrote the history of Portugal, but only a part of his work remained....
  
  
• Ferreira de Castro
  Ferreira de Castro
  José Maria Ferreira de Castro was a Portuguese writer and journalist.At age 12, he immigrated to Brazil, where his work at a rubber plantation for the next four years would be the inspiration for his most famous book, A Selva , which was adapted for a 2002 film of the same title José Maria...
  
  
• Fialho de Almeida
• Francisco Adolfo Coelho
• Francisco Costa
  Francisco Costa
  Francisco Costa , Brazil is the Women's Creative Director of Calvin Klein Collection. Costa won the Council of Fashion Designers America award for Womenswear Designer of the Year in June 2006 as well as in June 2008...
  
  
• Francisco José Viegas
• Francisco Gomes de Amorim

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• João de Barros
  João de Barros
  João de Barros , called the Portuguese Livy, is one of the first great Portuguese historians, most famous for his Décadas da Ásia , a history of the Portuguese in India and Asia.-Early years:...
  
  
• João Gaspar Simões
• João-Maria Nabais
  João-Maria Nabais
  João-Maria Nabais is a Portuguese doctor and writer, noted as an expert in the History of Medicine, History of Sephardic medical doctors and for his Poetry.-Background:...
  
  
• José Leon Machado
• José Maria Latino Coelho
• José Rodrigues Miguéis
• José Saramago
  José Saramago
  José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor. Harold Bloom has described Saramago as "a...
  
  
• Júlio César Machado

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• Luiz Francisco Rebello
  Luiz Francisco Rebello
  Luiz Francisco Rebello is a Portuguese lawyer, playwright, drama critic, theatrical historian, translator and essayist....
  
  
• Luís Pereira Brandão
• Luís Vaz de Camões
• Luiz Pacheco
  Luiz Pacheco
  Luiz Pacheco was a writer, publisher, polemicist and literary critic . He was most proud of his work as a publisher...
  
  

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• Manuel Alegre
  Manuel Alegre
  Manuel Alegre de Melo Duarte, GCL , is a Portuguese poet and politician, member of the Socialist Party, and a candidate to the Portuguese presidential election, 2006...
  
  
• Manuel António Pina
• Manuel da Fonseca
  Manuel da Fonseca
  Manuel Lopes Fonseca, better known as Manuel da Fonseca was a Portuguese writer....
  
  
• Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage
  Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage
  Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage was a Portuguese Neoclassic poet, writing under the pen name Elmano Sadino.-Biography:...
  
  
• Manuel Teixeira Gomes
  Manuel Teixeira Gomes
  Manuel Teixeira Gomes, GCSE was a Portuguese politician and writer. He served as the seventh President of Portugal between 5 October 1923 and 11 December 1925.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Manuel Varella
• Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho
  Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho
  Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho was a Portuguese writer. She was the first woman to join the Portuguese Academy of Sciences ....
  
  
• Maria Judite de Carvalho
• Maria Velho da Costa
  Maria Velho da Costa
  Maria de Fátima de Bívar Velho da Costa is a Portuguese writer who was awarded the Camões Prize in 2002. She took part of the Portuguese Feminist Movement with Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Teresa Horta ....
  
  
• Marina Tavares Dias
• Mário Beirão
• Mário de Sá-Carneiro
  Mário de Sá-Carneiro
  Mário de Sá-Carneiro was a Portuguese poet and writer. He is one of the most well known of the "Geração D'Orpheu".-Life:...
  
  
• Matilde Rosa Araújo (1921-2010)
• Miguel Sousa Tavares
  Miguel Sousa Tavares
  Miguel Andresen de Sousa Tavares is a Portuguese lawyer, journalist and writer.The son of poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and lawyer and politician Francisco Sousa Tavares, Miguel received his education in Law, eventually pursuing careers in journalism and essay writing for which he became...
  
  

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• Pedro Almeida Vieira
• Pedro Paixão
• Pinheiro Chagas
• Possidónio Cachapa