Lygia Fagundes da Silva Telles was a Brazilian novelist and writer. Educated as a lawyer, she began publishing soon after she completed high school and simultaneously worked as a solicitor and writer throughout most of her career. She was a recipient of the Camões Prize, the highest literary award of the Portuguese language and her works have received honors and awards from Brazil, Chile and France. She was elected as the third woman in the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1985 and held Chair 16.
Paulo Leminski Filho was a Brazilian writer, poet, translator, journalist, advertising professional, songwriter, literary critic, biographer, teacher and judoka. He was noted for his avant-garde work, an experimental novel and poetry inspired in concrete poetry, as well as abundant short lyrics derived from haiku and related forms. He had a remarkable poetry, as he invented his own way of writing, with puns, jokes with popular sayings and the influence of haiku, in addition to abusing slangs and profanity.
João Ubaldo Ribeiro was a Brazilian writer, journalist, screenwriter and professor. Several of his books and short stories have been turned into movies and TV series in Brazil. Ribeiro was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, being elected in 1994. At the time of his death many considered him to be Brazil's greatest contemporary novelist.
Mauro Alice was a prolific Brazilian film editor who between 1952 and 2005 edited nearly 60 films, including Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Corazón iluminado (1996) and Carandiru (2003). He was born in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil and was studying chemistry in Santo André, São Paulo, when he began working in the projection room at the Vera Cruz film studio in São Bernardo do Campo. He worked with some of the most important Brazilian directors, including Amácio Mazzaropi, Watson Macedo, Walter Hugo Khouri, Héctor Babenco and Maurice Capovilla. He won the "Coruja de Ouro" award in 1974 for the editing of “Anjo da Noite”.
The Pedreira Paulo Leminski is a 25,000-capacity outdoor concert venue located in Curitiba, Brazil. It was partly named after Paulo Leminski, a twentieth century Brazilian writer, and because it served as the Municipal Pedreira, or rock quarry. Located in the neighborhood of Abranches, the site is about 103,500 metres (339,600 ft) long, its stage is around 480 square metres (5,200 sq ft), and it is surrounded by a rock wall 30-metre-high (98 ft). It was first opened in 1990.
João Almino is a Brazilian novelist. He is the author of The Brasília Quintet, which consists of the novels Ideas on Where to Spend the End of the World, Samba-Enredo, The Five Seasons of Love ; The Book of Emotions and Cidade Livre. His 2015 novel Enigmas da Primavera was published in English in 2016 by Dalkey Archive Press and won the Jabuti Award for Best Brazilian Book in translation. His seventh novel was published in November 2017 in Brazil: Entre facas, algodão. His most recent novel, Homem de Papel, was published in 2022. He has also authored books of philosophical and literary essays. He taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), at the University of Brasília (UnB), the Instituto Rio Branco, Berkeley, Stanford and The University of Chicago. In 2017, he was elected as one of the 40 members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Marina Colasanti is an Italian writer, translator and journalist. She lived in Libya during her infancy, and then she moved to Italy, where she lived for eleven years. Her family moved to Brazil in 1948 due to the difficult conditions in Europe after World War II.
The Japanese haiku has been adopted in various languages other than Japanese.
Cristóvão Tezza is a Brazilian novelist and university professor.
Edla Van Steen was a Brazilian journalist, actress and writer.
Pedro Bandeira de Luna Filho is a Brazilian award-winning and best-selling children's novelist and poet, best known as the author of the Os Karas hexalogy of mystery novels which comprise A Droga da Obediência (1984), Pântano de Sangue (1987), Anjo da Morte (1988), A Droga do Amor (1994), Droga de Americana! (2001) and A Droga da Amizade (2014).
Elvira Vigna was a Brazilian writer, illustrator and journalist.
José Paulo Paes was a Brazilian poet, literary critic, and translator.
Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz is a Brazilian historian and anthropologist. She is a doctor in social anthropology at the University of São Paulo, full professor at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas in the same institution, and visiting professor at Princeton University.
Mary Lucy Murray Del Priore is a Brazilian historian and teacher. She wrote several books on the history of everyday Brazilian people during the colonial, imperial and Republican periods.
Maria Valéria Rezende is a Brazilian writer and nun. She is a recipient of the Jabuti Prize, Casa de las Américas Prize, and São Paulo Prize for Literature.
Estrela Ruiz Leminski is a Brazilian writer and songwriter, daughter of poets Paulo Leminski and Alice Ruiz.
Ângela Maria Cardoso Lago was a Brazilian children's author and illustrator of poems dedicated to children. She began drawing at the age of three and spent time in the United States, Venezuela and Scotland early in her career. Lago published her first book in 1980 and her last in 2016. She was named the winner of the Best Illustrated Book Award which is issued by the Fundación Nacional del Libros Infantil y Juvenil de Brasil in both 1984 and 1986 and the 1995 and 2007 Biennial of Illustration Bratislava for her books Festa no Céu: Um Conto do Nosso Folclor and Joao Felizardo o rei dos negocios respectively. Lago was also named a recipient of the Jabuti Prize for Literature in each of 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005.
Helena Kolody (1912–2004) was a Brazilian poet and educator. Considered to be the outstanding poet of the State of Paraná, she started writing poetry when she was 12 and published her first poem "A Lágrima" four years later. When she was 20, she became a schoolteacher and later, on graduation, a lecturer at the Curitiba Normal School. She is remembered in particular for being the first Brazilian to write verse in the Japanese haiku style, publishing "Cântico" in 1941 and including haiku verse in several later publications.
Isa Silveira Leal, also known as Isa Leal, was a Brazilian writer, poet, journalist and novelist. She won the Jabuti Award on three occasions and the best poetry book prize from the São Paulo Association of Art Critics.
