List of Portuguese language poets
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The following is a list of famous or notable Portuguese language
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PortugalPortugalPortugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
- Afonso Sanches
- Al BertoAl BertoAl 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 de LacerdaAlberto de LacerdaAlberto Correia de Lacerda was a Portuguese poet and BBC Radio Presenter.- Biography :Alberto de Lacerda was born in Mozambique in 1928. In 1946, Lacerda moved to Lisbon. In 1951, he began work at the BBC working as a radio presenter. In the years after that, he travelled to Europe and lived in...
- Alberto Pimenta
- Alexandre O'NeillAlexandre O'NeillAlexandre Manuel Vahia de Castro O'Neill de Bulhões, GOSE was a Portuguese writer and poet of Irish descent.-Family:...
- Almada NegreirosAlmada NegreirosJosé 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...
- Alexandre Pinheiro Torres
- Alexandre Vargas
- Almeida GarrettAlmeida GarrettJoão 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...
- Ana Hatherly
- Antero de QuentalAntero de QuentalAntero 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 Aleixo
- António Aragão
- António Barahona da Fonseca
- António Diniz da Cruz e SilvaAntónio Diniz da Cruz e SilvaAntónio Diniz da Cruz e Silva , Portuguese heroic-comic poet, was the son of a Lisbon carpenter who emigrated to Brazil shortly before the poet's birth, leaving his wife to support and educate her young family by the earnings of her needle.-Education:Diniz studied Latin and philosophy with the...
- António Duarte Gomes Leal
- António Feijó
- António FerreiraAntónio FerreiraAntónio Ferreira was a Portuguese poet and the foremost representative of the classical school, founded by Francisco de Sá de Miranda. His most considerable work, Castro, is the first tragedy in Portuguese, and the second in modern European literature.-His life:Ferreira was a native of Lisbon...
- António Franco Alexandre
- António Gancho
- António GedeãoAntónio GedeãoAntónio Gedeão was a Portuguese poet, essayist, writer and playwright, who also published several works related to science...
- António José Forte
- António Luís Moita
- António Manuel Couto Viana
- António Maria Lisboa
- António NobreAntónio NobreAntónio 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 Ramos Rosa (1924)
- António ReisAntónio ReisAntónio Reis was a Portuguese film director. He was married to Margarida Cordeiro, co-director in most of his films. He is considered as one of the most important directors of his country, due to the originality of his style.-Filmography:...
- António Ribeiro Chiado
- António Sousa Freitas
- António Torrado
- Arlete Argente Guerreiro
- Armando Silva Carvalho
- Armindo Rodrigues
- Arnaldo Saraiva
- Ary dos SantosAry dos SantosJosé Carlos Ary dos Santos, GCIH or just Ary dos Santos was one of the most relevant names of the Portuguese popular poetry of the 20th century....
- Augusto GilAugusto GilAugusto César Ferreira Gil was a Portuguese poet. He was born on July 31, 1873, in Lordelo do Ouro, and died on November 26, 1929 in Guarda. He wrote Balada da Neve, a well-known poem among Portuguese poets....
- Barbosa Campos
- Bernardim RibeiroBernardim RibeiroBernardim Ribeiro was a Portuguese poet and writer. His father, Damião Ribeiro, was implicated in the conspiracy against John II of Portugal...
- Caetano da Costa AlegreCaetano da Costa AlegreCaetano da Costa Alegre was a Portuguese poet. Born to a Crioulo family in the Portuguese colony of São Tomé, off the coast of Africa, he settled in Portugal in 1882 and attended medical school in Lisbon, hoping to become a naval doctor, but died of tuberculosis before he could fulfill his...
- Camilo PessanhaCamilo PessanhaCamilo Pessanha was a Portuguese symbolist poet.-Early years:Camilo de Almeida Pessanha was born the illegitimate son of Francisco António de Almeida Pessanha, an aristocratic law student, and Maria do Espírito Santo Duarte Nunes Pereira, his housekeeper, on September 7, 1867, at 11.00 p.m., in Sé...
- Carlos Eurico da Costa
- Carlos de OliveiraCarlos de OliveiraCarlos de Oliveira, GOSE , was a Portuguese poet and novelist.-Biography:...
- Casimiro de Brito
- Cesário VerdeCesário VerdeCesário Verde was a 19th-century Portuguese poet. His work, while mostly ignored during his lifetime and not well known outside of the country’s borders even today, is generally considered to be amongst the most important in Portuguese poetry and is widely taught in schools...
- Christovão FalcãoChristovão FalcãoChristovão 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...
- Cláudia de Campos
- Cristóvam Pavia
- Daniel Filipe
- David Mourão-FerreiraDavid Mourão-FerreiraDavid de Jesus Mourão-Ferreira, GCSE was a Portuguese writer and poet from Lisbon.He was a son of David Ferreira and wife Teresa de Jesus Ferro Mourão...
- King Denis of PortugalDenis of PortugalDinis , called the Farmer King , was the sixth King of Portugal and the Algarve. The eldest son of Afonso III of Portugal by his second wife, Beatrice of Castile and grandson of king Alfonso X of Castile , Dinis succeeded his father in 1279.-Biography:As heir to the throne, Infante Dinis was...
- Dórdio Guimarães
- Eduardo Guerra Carneiro
- Egito Gonçalves
- E. M. de Melo e Castro
- Eugénio de AndradeEugénio de AndradeEugénio de Andrade was the pseudonym of José Fontinhas, GOSE, GCM , a Portuguese poet.José Fontinhas was born at Póvoa de Atalaia, Fundão. He is revered as one of the leading names in contemporary Portuguese poetry...
- F. Marques
- F. J. B. Martinho
- Fernanda Botelho
- Fernanda de Castro
- Fernanda Seno
- Fernando Assis Pacheco
- Fernando Grade
- Fernando Guedes
- Fernando Guimarães
- Fernando Lemos
- Fernando PessoaFernando PessoaFernando 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...
- Fiama Hasse Pais BrandãoFiama Hasse Pais BrandãoFiama Hasse Pais Brandão was a Portuguese poet, dramatist, translator and essayist.- Life :Born in Lisbon, she lived in Carcavelos until the age of 18. Studied in St. Julian's School and in the University of Lisbon....
- Florbela Espanca
- Francisco Manoel de NascimentoFrancisco Manoel de NascimentoFrancisco Manoel de Nascimento , Portuguese poet, better known by the literary name of Filinto Elysio, bestowed on him by the Marqueza de Alorna, was the reputed son of a Lisbon boat-owner.-Early years:...
, aka Filinto Elysio - Francisco Rodrigues LoboFrancisco Rodrigues LoboFrancisco Rodrigues Lobo was a Portuguese poet and bucolic writer.He was born of rich and noble parents but of Sephardi Portuguese ancestry in Leiria, reading philosophy, poetry and writing of shepherds and shepherdesses by the rivers Liz and Lena. He studied at the University of Coimbra and took...
- Francisco de Sá de MirandaFrancisco de Sá de MirandaFrancisco de Sá de Miranda was a Portuguese poet of the Renaissance.-Life:Sá de Miranda was the son of a canon of Coimbra belonging to the ancient and noble family of Sa...
(1481–1558) - Garcia de ResendeGarcia de ResendeGarcia de Resende was a Portuguese poet and editor. He served John II as a page and private secretary, and later became a knight in the Order of Christ...
- Gastão Cruz
- Gil VicenteGil VicenteGil Vicente , called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus,"[3] often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama" and as one of Western literature's...
- Gonçalo Anes
- Guerra JunqueiroGuerra JunqueiroAbilio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro was a Portuguese, bachelor in law at the University of Coimbra, a top civil servant, member of the Portuguese House of Representatives, journalist, author, and poet. His work helped inspire the creation of the Portuguese First Republic...
- Gui² & Lucas
- Helder Macedo
- Herberto HelderHerberto HélderHerberto Hélder de Oliveira is a Portuguese poet. He was born in Funchal, Madeira.- Biography :Herberto Helder was born into a family of Jewish ancestry in the Portuguese Atlantic island of Madeira. In 1946 he traveled to Lisbon to complete his secondary studies and subsequently in 1948 moved to...
- Ibn Al-Murahal
- Ibn BassamIbn BassamIbn Bassam was a poet and historian from al-Andalus. He was born in Santarém and died in 1147....
- Ivete Centeno
- Jaime Salazar Sampaio
- Jerónimo Corte-RealJerónimo Corte-RealJerónimo Corte-Real was Portuguese epic poet, who came of a noble Portuguese stock. He is sometimes regarded as the Portuguese Virgil....
- Joaquim Pessoa
- João Apolinário
- João de DeusJoão de DeusJoão de Deus Ramos , better known as João de Deus, the greatest Portuguese poet of his generation, was born in Silves, São Bartolomeu de Messines, in the province of Algarve, son of Pedro José Ramos and wife Isabel Gertrudes Martins...
- João Garcia de Guilhade
- João José Cochofel
- João Penha
- João Pinto Delgado
- João Rui de Sousa
- João-Maria NabaisJoão-Maria NabaisJoão-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:...
- Jorge de Amorim
- Jorge de Sena
- Jorge Melícias
- José Agostinho Baptista
- José Agostinho de MacedoJosé Agostinho de MacedoJosé Agostinho de Macedo , Portuguese poet and prose writer, was born at Beja of plebeian family, and studied Latin and rhetoric with the Oratorians in Lisbon...
- José Alberto Marques
- José António CamõesJosé António CamõesFather José António Camões , a Florense , a Catholic priest, poet, historian, and author of various works of satire, including his heroic satire O Testamento de D...
- José Augusto Seabra
- José Blanc de Portugal
- José Carlos Ary dos Santos
- José Carlos Gonzalez
- José dos Santos FerreiraJosé dos Santos FerreiraJosé dos Santos Ferreira, better known as Adé, was born in Portuguese Macau on 28 July 1919 and died in Hong Kong on 24 March 1993. Born to a father from metropolitan Portugal and a Macanese mother, he was the last poet of distinction to write in Macanese , the Portuguese-Cantonese creole.Adé lived...
- José Gomes FerreiraJosé Gomes FerreiraJosé Gomes Ferreira, GOSE, GOL was a Portuguese poet and fiction writer with a vast work of varied influences. Gomes Ferreira was also a political activist that participated in the resistance against the dictatorship of Oliveira Salazar, becoming later a member of the Portuguese Communist Party...
- José RégioJosé RégioJosé Maria dos Reis Pereira, better known by the pen name José Regio was a Portuguese writer which lived most of his life in Portalegre...
- José SaramagoJosé SaramagoJosé 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...
- José Terra
- Judah Leon AbravanelJudah Leon AbravanelJudah Leon Abravanel was a Jewish Portuguese physician, poet and philosopher...
- Leonor de Almeida
- Liberto Cruz
- Luís Amaro
- Luís de CamõesLuís de CamõesLuís Vaz de Camões is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas...
- Luís Eusébio (1959-)
- Luís Pignatelli
- Luís Veiga Leitão
- Luiza Neto Jorge
- Manuel AlegreManuel AlegreManuel 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 FonsecaManuel da FonsecaManuel Lopes Fonseca, better known as Manuel da Fonseca was a Portuguese writer....
- Manuel de Castro
- Manuel de Faria e SousaManuel de Faria e SousaManuel de Faria e Sousa was Portuguese historian and poet during the period of the Iberian Union, frequently writing in Spanish.right|thump|300px|Portrait of Manuel de Faria e Sousa in Ásia portuguesa...
- Manuel Maria Barbosa du BocageManuel Maria Barbosa du BocageManuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage was a Portuguese Neoclassic poet, writing under the pen name Elmano Sadino.-Biography:...
- M. S. Fonseca
- Maria Alberta Menéres
- Maria Amália Vaz de CarvalhoMaria Amália Vaz de CarvalhoMaria Amália Vaz de Carvalho was a Portuguese writer. She was the first woman to join the Portuguese Academy of Sciences ....
(1847–1921) - Maria Amélia Neto
- Maria Teresa HortaMaria Teresa HortaMaria Teresa Mascarenhas Horta is a Portuguese writer.She is bachelor in the Universidade de Lisboa and she has worked as a journalist...
- Mário Cesariny de VasconcelosMário Cesariny de VasconcelosMário Cesariny de Vasconcelos also known as Mário Cesariny is among the most important Portuguese surrealist poets, having published several major works during a career spanning 50 years...
- Mário de Sá-CarneiroMário de Sá-CarneiroMário de Sá-Carneiro was a Portuguese poet and writer. He is one of the most well known of the "Geração D'Orpheu".-Life:...
- Matias de Lima
- Mendes de Carvalho
- Miguel TorgaMiguel TorgaMiguel Torga, pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Rocha is considered one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the 20th century...
- Natália CorreiaNatália CorreiaNatália de Oliveira Correia, GOSE, GOL was an intellectual, poet and social activist, as well as author of the official lyrics of the Hino dos Açores, the regional anthem of Autonomous Region of the Azores...
- Nuno Guimarães
- Nuno Júdice
- Olga Gonçalves
- Orlando da CostaOrlando da CostaOrlando António Fernandes da Costa was a Portuguese writer of Goan descent on his father Luís Afonso Maria da Costa's side and of Portuguese and French on his mother Amélia Maria Fréchaut Fernandes' side. Born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, a Portuguese colony at the time, he spent his youth in...
- Pedro Correia GarçãoPedro Correia GarçãoPedro António Joaquim Correia da Serra Garção was a Portuguese lyric poet.-Biography:...
- Pedro Homem de Mello (1904–1984)
- Pedro Tamen
- Raúl de Carvalho
- Reinaldo Ferreira
- Rui Knopfli
- Rui Miguel Saramago
- Ruy BeloRuy BeloRuy de Moura Belo was a Portuguese poet and essayist. He is considered one of the most famous existentialists of the twentieth century in Portuguese-speaking countries...
- Ruy Cinatti
- Salette Tavares
- Sebastião da Gama
- Sérgio GodinhoSérgio GodinhoSérgio Godinho, OL is a Portuguese poet, composer, and singer. He was born on August 31, 1945 in Porto, Portugal, and is one of the most influential popular musicians in Portugal...
- Sidónio Muralha
- Sophia de Mello Breyner AndresenSophia de Mello Breyner AndresenSophia de Mello Breyner Andresen was an award-winning Portuguese poet and writer.Sophia, as she is often referred to in Portugal, was born in Porto to a wealthy aristocratic family. She inherited the surname 'Andresen' from her paternal grandfather, a Danish merchant...
- Tiago Tejo
- Tolentino Mendonça
- Vasco Costa Marques
- Vasco da Gama RodriguesVasco da Gama RodriguesVasco da Gama Rodrigues , was a Portuguese poet. Rodrigues moved in his youth to Mozambique, then a Portuguese colony. In his twenties he returned to Lisbon, where he worked in Lisbon’s Tourism Inspection Department. During this time he started writing and some of his works were published...
- Vasco Graça MouraVasco Graça MouraVasco Navarro da Graça Moura, OSE is a Portuguese lawyer, writer, translator and politician, son of Francisco José da Graça Moura and wife Maria Teresa Amado da Cunha Seixas Navarro de Castro, of Northern Portugal bourgeoisie.He was a Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic...
- Vasco Miranda
- Vítor Matos e Sá
- Vitorino NemésioVitorino NemésioVitorino Nemésio Mendes Pinheiro da Silva was a poet, author and intellectual from Terceira, Azores, best known for his romance Mau Tempo No Canal, as well as being a professor in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon and member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon...
- Wanda Ramos
- Zeca AfonsoZeca AfonsoJosé Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos, known as Zeca Afonso or just Zeca , was born in Aveiro, Portugal, the son of José Nepomuceno Afonso, a judge, and Maria das Dores. Zeca is among the most influential folk and political musicians in Portuguese history...
BrazilBrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
- Adalgisa NeryAdalgisa NeryAdalgisa Nery was a Brazilian poet, journalist and politician. She was born in Rio de Janeiro as Adalgisa Maria Feliciana Noel Cancela Ferreira, the daughter of a civil servant...
- Alberto de OliveiraAlberto de OliveiraAntônio Mariano de Oliveira was a Brazilian poet, pharmacist and professor, more well-known by his pen name Alberto de Oliveira...
- Afonso Félix de Souza
- Alphonsus de GuimaraensAlphonsus de GuimaraensAfonso Henrique da Costa Guimarães, known as Alphonsus de Guimaraens, was a Brazilian poet....
- Alvarenga PeixotoAlvarenga PeixotoInácio 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 AzevedoÁlvares de AzevedoManuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo was a Brazilian Romantic poet, short story writer, playwright and essayist...
- Ana Cristina CésarAna Cristina CésarAna 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...
- Antônio Gonçalves DiasAntônio Gonçalves DiasAntônio Gonçalves Dias was a Brazilian Romantic poet, playwright and linguist. He is famous for writing the poem "Canção do exílio", arguably the most well-known poem of the Brazilian literature, and many other nationalist and patriotic poems that would later give him the title of national poet of...
- Antônio VieiraAntônio VieiraAntônio Vieira was a Brazilian professional football coach who managed the Kuwaiti national team between 1987 and 1988.-References:...
- Ascânio Lopes
- Augusto de LimaAugusto de LimaAntônio Augusto de Lima was a Brazilian journalist, poet, musician, magistrate, jurist, professor and politician. He was born in Congonhas de Sabará ....
- Augusto dos AnjosAugusto dos AnjosAugusto 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....
- Bernardo GuimarãesBernardo GuimarãesBernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães was a Brazilian poet and novelist. He is the author of the famous romances A Escrava Isaura and O Seminarista. He also introduced to the Brazilian poetry the "verso bestialógico" , poems whose verses are very nonsensical, although very metrical...
- Caio Rudá de Oliveira
- Carlos Drummond de AndradeCarlos Drummond de AndradeCarlos 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...
- Casimiro de AbreuCasimiro de AbreuCasimiro José Marques de Abreu was a Brazilian poet, novelist and playwright, adept of the "Ultra-Romanticism" movement...
- Castro AlvesCastro AlvesAntônio Frederico de Castro Alves was a Brazilian poet and playwright, famous for his Abolitionist and Republican poems...
- CazuzaCazuzaAgenor Miranda Araújo Neto, better known as Cazuza was a Brazilian composer and singer, born in Rio de Janeiro. Along with Raul Seixas, Renato Russo and Os Mutantes, Cazuza is considered one of the best exponents of Brazilian rock music....
- Cecília MeirelesCecília MeirelesCecília 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...
- Cláudio Manuel da CostaCláudio Manuel da CostaCláudio Manuel da Costa was a Brazilian poet and musician, considered to be the introducer of the Neoclassicism in Brazil...
- Clarice LispectorClarice LispectorClarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist...
- Cora CoralinaCora CoralinaCora Coralina was a Brazilian writer and poetess. She was born August 20, 1889, and died in the city of Goiânia on April 10, 1985. She published her first book after her husband died in 1965...
- Cruz e Souza
- Cyro dos AnjosCyro dos AnjosCyro Versiani dos Anjos, journalist, and writer, was born in Montes Claros, state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, on October 5, 1906. In 1923, he went to Belo Horizonte, where he studied law at Federal University of Minas Gerais and graduated in 1932...
- Dante MilanoDante MilanoDante Milano was a Brazilian poet associated with modernism.-Life and works:He was born in Rio de Janeiro to Italian immigrants. He had his first poem published in 1920 when he was working as an accountant. He had successes in poetry after that and in 1935 organized an anthology of modernist...
- Fabrício Carpi NejarFabrício Carpi Nejar- Bibliography :* As Solas do Sol, 1998* Um Terno de Pássaros ao Sul, 2000* Terceira Sede, 2001* Biografia de uma árvore, 2002* Caixa de Sapatos, 2003* Cinco Marias, 2004* Como no Céu e Livro de Visitas, 2005* O amor esquece de começar, 2006...
- Ferreira GullarFerreira GullarFerreira Gullar is the pen name for José Ribamar Ferreira , Brazilian poet, playwright, essayist, art critic, and television writer...
- Gilberto Mendonça TelesGilberto Mendonça TelesGilberto Mendonça Teles is a Brazilian writer. He was born in Bela Vista de Goiás, state of Goiás, in 1931.- Bibliography :* Alvorada, poetry, 1955* Estrela-d'Alva, poetry, 1956* Planície, poetry, 1958* Fábula de Fogo, poetry, 1961...
- Gregório "Boca do Inferno" de Matos Guerra
- Gonçalves Dias
- Haroldo de CamposHaroldo de CamposHaroldo de Campos was a Brazilian poet, critic, and translator. He did his secondary education at the College of St. Benedict, where he learned the first foreign language, like Latin, English, Spanish and French...
- Henriqueta LisboaHenriqueta LisboaHenriqueta Lisboa was a Brazilian writer. She was awarded the Prêmio Machado de Assis for her lifetime achievement by the Brazilian Academy of Letters. She is famous for her wellchosen words to create powerful poems. Her early lyrics deal with traditional poetic themes, while her later poems like...
- Hilda HilstHilda HilstHilda 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...
- João Cabral de Melo NetoJoão Cabral de Melo NetoJoão 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 da Cruz e SousaJoão da Cruz e SousaJoão da Cruz e Sousa was a symbolist poet from Santa Catarina, Brazil. A son of freed slaves, he was one of the great Afro-Brazilian writers. He published his first poem in 1877...
- Joaquim Maria Machado de AssisJoaquim Maria Machado de AssisJoaquim Maria Machado de Assis , often known as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho , was a Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature, but he did not gain widespread popularity outside Brazil in...
- José de AlencarJosé de AlencarJosé 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 de LimaJorge de LimaJon Mateus de Lima, was a politician, poet, and writer of Alagoas.His most famous works are the novels "A Mulher Obscura" and "Calunga"; and "A Túnica Inconsútil" and "A Invenção de Orfeu"...
- José de MesquitaJosé de MesquitaJosé Barnabé de Mesquita , generally known as José de Mesquita, was a Brazilian poet parnassian, romance and short story writer, historiographer, journalist, essayist, genealogist and jurist.-Biography:...
- José de Santa Rita Durão
- Junqueira Freire
- Manuel BandeiraManuel BandeiraManuel 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 AbreuManuel de AbreuManuel Dias de Abreu was a Brazilian physician and scientist, the inventor of abreugraphy, a rapid radiography of the lungs for screening tuberculosis...
- Mário de AndradeMário de AndradeMário 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...
- Menotti del PicchiaMenotti Del PicchiaPaulo Menotti Del Picchia was a Brazilian poet, journalist, and painter. He is associated with the Generation of 1922, the first generation of Brazilian modernists....
- Murilo MendesMurilo MendesMurilo 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...
- Olavo BilacOlavo BilacOlavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator. Alongside Alberto de Oliveira and Raimundo Correia, he was a member of the "Parnassian Triad"...
- Oswald de AndradeOswald de AndradeJosé Oswald de Andrade Souza was a Brazilian poet and polemicist. He was born and spent most of his life in São Paulo....
- Paulo LeminskiPaulo LeminskiPaulo Leminski Filho was a Brazilian poet and writer. He took pride in being of mixed Polish and African descent....
- Pedro KilkerryPedro KilkerryPedro Kilkerry was a Brazilian Symbolist poet. A Bahian, he was born in Santo Antônio de Jesus and died of tuberculosis in Salvador. He died without having any published books, although he had contributed to such periodicals as Nova Cruzada and Os Anais. His poems were collected in 1970 by...
- Raimundo CorreiaRaimundo CorreiaRaimundo da Mota de Azevedo Correia was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, judge and magistrate. Alongside Alberto de Oliveira and Olavo Bilac, he was a member of the "Parnassian Triad"....
- Santa Rita DurãoSanta Rita DurãoJosé de Santa Rita Durão was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet, orator and Augustinian friar. He is considered a forerunner of the "Indianism" in the literature of Brazil, with his epic poem Caramuru....
- Tomás Antônio GonzagaTomás Antônio GonzagaTomás Antônio Gonzaga was a Portuguese poet. One of the most famous Neoclassic Brazilian writers, he was also the ouvidor and the ombudsman of the city of Ouro Preto , as well as the desembargador of the appeal court in Bahia...
- Vinicius de MoraesVinicius de MoraesMarcus Vinicius de Moraes , known as Vinicius de Moraes and nicknamed O Poetinho , was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Son of Lydia Cruz de Moraes and Clodoaldo Pereira da Silva Moraes, he was a seminal figure in contemporary Brazilian music...
AngolaAngolaAngola, 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 NetoAgostinho NetoAntónio 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...
- Alda LaraAlda LaraAlda Ferreira Pires Barreto de Lara Albuquerque, known as Alda Lara . Created a large poetic output in the Portuguese language. Attended Coimbra and Lisbon Universities...
- António JacintoAntónio JacintoAntónio Jacinto, full name António Jacinto do Amaral Martins, born in Luanda, Angola 28 September 1924, died 23 June 1991 in Lisbon, Portugal, was an Angolan poet.-Biography:...
- Lopito Feijóo
- João Cândido Furtado
- José da Silva Maia Ferreira
- Luis Kandjimbo
- Maurício GomezMauricio GómezMauricio Alejandro Gómez Rios is a Chilean footballer. He currently plays as striker for Santiago Morning.-Career:...
- OndjakiOndjakiNdalu 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....
- PepetelaPepetelaArtur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos is a major Angolan writer of fiction. He writes under the name Pepetela....
- Viriato da CruzViriato da CruzViriato 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....
- Tomaz Vieira Da CruzTomaz Vieira Da CruzTomaz Vieira da Cruz was a poet from Portugal. He was also a musician and journalist. His most well known poems are dedicated to his "bronze flower", a woman he loved. His poetry had an Angolan flavor. His "day job" was as a pharmacist's assistant.He was born in Constância, Portugal, and died...
MozambiqueMozambiqueMozambique, 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 GuebuzaArmando GuebuzaArmando Emílio Guebuza is a Mozambican politician and the President of Mozambique since 2005.- Career :Armando Emílio Guebuza was born in 20 January 1943 in Portuguese East Africa...
- Eduardo MondlaneEduardo MondlaneEduardo Chivambo Mondlane served as President of the Mozambican Liberation Front from 1962, the year that FRELIMO was founded in Tanzania, until his assassination in 1969.-Early life:...
- Eduardo White
- Eusébio Sanjane
- José CraveirinhaJosé CraveirinhaJosé Craveirinha , was born in Maputo, Mozambique and is today considered the greatest poet of that country....
- Luís Bernardo HonwanaLuis 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...
- Marcelino dos SantosMarcelino dos SantosMarcelino 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...
- Mia CoutoMia CoutoAntónio 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 SousaNoémia de SousaCarolina 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....
- Sebastião AlbaSebastião AlbaSebastião Alba was a Portuguese poet, born in Braga that lived a long period of his life in former Portuguese colony Mozambique.He became a journalist in Mozambique and published three books of poetry before his decline caused by alcoholism....
- Teodomiro Leite de Vasconcelos
- Ungulani Ba Ka KhosaUngulani Ba Ka KhosaFrancisco Esaú Cossa is a Mozambican writer born August 1, 1957, in Inhaminga, Sofala Province....
Cape VerdeCape VerdeThe 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...
- Aguinaldo FonsecaAguinaldo Fonseca-External links:*...
- Ana Júlia Monteiro Macedo Sança
- Antônio Mendes Cardoso
- Arménio VieiraArménio VieiraArménio Adroaldo Vieira e Silva is a Cape Verdean and a Portuguese journalist. He elemented an activity during the 1960s, collaborated in SELÓ, Boletim de Cabo Verde, Vértice review, Raízes, Ponto & Vírgula, Fragmentos, and others....
- Arnaldo França
- Daniel Felipe
- Jorge BarbosaJorge BarbosaJorge 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...
- Jorge Pedro Barbosa
- Osvaldo Alcântara
- Ovídio MartinsOvídio MartinsOvídio de Sousa Martins was a famous Cape Verdean poet and journalist. He lived in exile in the Netherlands due to his pro-independence activities in his native land.-Books:*Caminhada, 1962 – Poemas...
- Terencio Anahory
- Tomé Varela da Silva
São Tomé and PríncipeSão Tomé and PríncipeSão Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is a Portuguese-speaking island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two islands: São Tomé and Príncipe, located about apart and about , respectively, off...
- Alda do Espirito Santo
- Caetano da Costa AlegreCaetano da Costa AlegreCaetano da Costa Alegre was a Portuguese poet. Born to a Crioulo family in the Portuguese colony of São Tomé, off the coast of Africa, he settled in Portugal in 1882 and attended medical school in Lisbon, hoping to become a naval doctor, but died of tuberculosis before he could fulfill his...
- Francisco José Tenreiro
- Maria Manuela Margarido
- Tomás Medeiros
MacauMacauMacau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...
- António Manuel Couto Viana
- Manuel Martins Gaspar Tomé
- José dos Santos FerreiraJosé dos Santos FerreiraJosé dos Santos Ferreira, better known as Adé, was born in Portuguese Macau on 28 July 1919 and died in Hong Kong on 24 March 1993. Born to a father from metropolitan Portugal and a Macanese mother, he was the last poet of distinction to write in Macanese , the Portuguese-Cantonese creole.Adé lived...
(Adé)
East TimorEast TimorThe Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, commonly known as East Timor , is a state in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecusse, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor...
- Crisódio T. Araújo
- Fernando SylvanFernando SylvanFernando Sylvan was a poet and a writer from East Timor.He spent almost all his life in Portugal, where he eventually died. The distance between Portugal and Timor didn't prevent him writing about the traditions, the legends and the folklore of his homeland...
- Jorge Barros Duarte
- Jorge Lauten
- Ruy Cinatti
- Francisco Borja da CostaFrancisco Borja da CostaFrancisco Borja da Costa was the composer of Pátria, the national anthem of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, ando also a poet, writing the majority of his work in tetum language. Borja da Costa died at December 7, 1975, the same day of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor...
GoaGoaGoa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...
(India)
- Adeodato BarretoAdeodato BarretoJúlio Francisco António Adeodato Barreto , popularly known as Adeodato Barreto, was an Indo-Portuguese poet and writer....
- Laxmanrao SardessaiLaxmanrao SardessaiLaxmanrao Sardessai was a Goan poet and short-story writer. Considered one of the territory's finest writers in the Marathi language, he also wrote prose and verse in Konkani and Portuguese.Sardessai was born in 1904, in Savoi-Verem, and died in 1986...
- Vimala DeviVimala DeviVimala Devi is the pseudonym of Teresa da Piedade de Baptista Almeida, a Goan writer, poet and translator.-Life in Goa:Vimala Devi was born in 1932 in the village of Britona in the parish of Penha-de-Franca, across the Mandovi river from Panjim, the principal town of Goa...
- R.V. PanditR.V. PanditRaghunath Vishnu Pandit was a Goan poet. He is best known and most celebrated for his vast poetic production in Konkani. Pandit also produced a significant body of work in Portuguese after the Liberation of Goa in 1961...
Galicia (Spain)
- Eduardo Blanco Amor
- Bernal de Bonaval
- Xohán de CangasXohán de CangasJohan de Cangas was a jograr or non-noble troubadour, probably active during the thirteenth century. He seems to have been from—or associated with -- Cangas de Morrazo, a small town on Pontevedra, Galicia . Only three of his songs survive...
- Luisa CastroLuisa CastroLuisa Castro is a Spanish poet and writer in Galician and Castilian. She has lived in Barcelona, New York, Madrid and Santiago de Compostela. She collaborates with articles in Galician press....
- Rosalía de CastroRosalía de CastroMaría 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...
- Martín CodaxMartín CodaxMartín Codax or Martim Codax was a Galician medieval jogral , possibly from Vigo, Galicia in present day Spain. He may have been active during the middle of the thirteenth century, judging from scriptological analysis...
- Álvaro CunqueiroÁlvaro CunqueiroÁlvaro Cunqueiro Mora was an Galician writer. He is the author of many works in both Galician and Spanish, including Merlín e familia...
- Manuel Curros EnríquezManuel Curros EnríquezManuel 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:...
- Celso Emilio FerreiroCelso Emilio FerreiroCelso Emilio Ferreiro Mínguez , born in Celanova, Galicia, was a Galicianist activist, writer, and political journalist.-Early years:...
- Alejandro FinisterreAlejandro FinisterreAlexandre Campos Ramírez was a poet, inventor and editor.He was born in Fisterra in 1919. When his father's shoemaking business failed, the director of his school made Finisterre pay his tuition by correcting the homework of lower grades...
- Payo Gómez Chariño
- Miguel González Garcés
- Meendiño
- Eugenio Montes
- Xosé Neira Vilas
- Airas NunesAiras NunesAiras Nunes was a Galician cleric and troubador of the 13th century, born in. He served under a bishop and much later, between 1284 and 1289, was a poet in the court of Sancho IV of Castille....
- Eduardo PondalEduardo PondalEduardo María González-Pondal Abente was a Spanish poet, who wrote in both Spanish and GalicianOf Hidalgo origin Pondal was the youngest of a family of seven. From 1884 onwards he studied Latin in a school in Vilela de Nemiña which belonged to his cleric relative, Cristobal Lago...
- Eladio RodríguezEladio RodríguezEladio Rodríguez González was a Portuguese language poet and author associated with the Galicia region of Spain.In 2001, he was honored in the Galician Literature Day.-External links:*...
- Claudio Rodríguez FerClaudio Rodriguez FerClaudio Rodríguez Fer . Galician writer. Claudio Rodriguez Fer is author of numerous literary works in Galician language and of works of modern literary studies in Spanish language. It exercised as Visiting Professor at the City University of New York and at the Université Haute Bretagne at Rennes...
- Ramón SampedroRamón SampedroRamón Sampedro was a ship fisherman from Galicia, Spain, who became a quadriplegic in a diving accident at the age of 25 and fought for his right to an assisted suicide for the next 29 years....
- Luis Seoane López
- Juan Tizón
- Benito Vicetto
- Xoán Vidal Martínez
See also
- Portuguese language literaturePortuguese language literaturePortuguese language literature can be:* Literature of Angola* Literature of Brazil* Portuguese literature...
- Portuguese literaturePortuguese literatureThis is a survey of Portuguese literature.The Portuguese language was developed gradually from the Vulgar language spoken in the countries which formed part of the Roman Empire and, both in morphology and syntax, it represents an organic transformation of Latin without the direct intervention of...
- Portuguese poetryPortuguese poetry-History:The earliest Portuguese poetry was produced in Galicia, today a Spanish province that shares some similarities with Portuguese culture. Like the troubadour culture in the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe, Galician-Portuguese poets sang the love for a woman, that often turned into...
- Literature of BrazilLiterature of BrazilBrazilian literature is written in the Portuguese language by Brazilians or in Brazil, even if prior to Brazil's independence from Portugal, in 1822...
- List of Portuguese people
- List of poets
- Instituto CamõesInstituto CamõesThe Instituto Camões is an institution created in 1992 for the world-wide promotion of the Portuguese language and culture...