Eduardo Costley White (Quelimane, 21 November 1963 - 24 August 2014) was a Mozambican writer.
His mother came from Lisbon and his father's father was English. [1] He studied at the Instituto Industrial for three years and in 1984, he founded the magazine Charrua. He is a member of Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos (AEMO).
José Cardoso was a Portuguese author of short stories, novels, plays, and political satire.
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen was a Portuguese poet and writer. Her remains have been entombed in the National Pantheon since 2014.
José Craveirinha was a Mozambican journalist, story writer and poet, who is today considered the greatest poet of Mozambique. His poems, written in Portuguese, address such issues as racism and the Portuguese colonial domination of Mozambique. A supporter of the anti-Portuguese group FRELIMO during the colonial wars, he was imprisoned in the 1960s. He was one of the African pioneers of the Négritude movement, and published six books of poetry between 1964 and 1997. Craveirinha also wrote under the pseudonyms Mário Vieira, José Cravo, Jesuíno Cravo, J. Cravo, J.C., Abílio Cossa, and José G. Vetrinha.
Francisco Esaú Cossa is a Mozambican writer born August 1, 1957, in Inhaminga, Sofala Province. Khosa completed elementary school in Sofala, and high school in Zambezia. In Maputo he attended Eduardo Mondlane University, receiving a bachelor's degree in History and Geography. He then worked as a high school teacher.
Moacyr Jaime Scliar was a Brazilian writer and physician. Most of his writing centers on issues of Jewish identity in the Diaspora and particularly on being Jewish in Brazil.
Zélia Gattai Amado de Faria was a Brazilian photographer, memoirist, novelist and author of children's literature, as well as a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Gattai wrote 14 different literary works, including children's books and her own personal memoirs have been widely published.
A cantiga is a medieval monophonic song, characteristic of the Galician-Portuguese lyric. Over 400 extant cantigas come from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, narrative songs about miracles or hymns in praise of the Holy Virgin. There are near 1700 secular cantigas but music has only survived for a very few: six cantigas de amigo by Martín Codax and seven cantigas de amor by Denis of Portugal.
Luis Carlos Verzoni Nejar, better known as Carlos Nejar, is a Brazilian poet, author, translator and critic, and a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras. One of the most important poets of its generation, Nejar, also called "o poeta do pampa brasileiro", is distinguished for his use of an extensive vocabulary, alliteration, and pandeism. His first book, Sélesis, was published in 1960.
Mario Guimarães Ferri was a Professor at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP). He was a research scientist, a lecturer, an editor, an administrator and also an artist. In his scientific work, he was a pioneer ecologist in Brazil. His power of communication linked to a great love of botany and the environment and a deep scientific knowledge made of him an exceptional lecturer. In his books and articles on science he informed the public about ecology and pollution – and in a very simple but precise language he presented the necessary data to understand the importance of the protection of the environment.
Ana Luísa Amaral was born in Lisbon, in 1956, and lives in the north of Portugal. Professor at the University of Porto, she holds a Ph.D. on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and has academic publications in the areas of English and American Poetry, Comparative Poetics and Feminist Studies. She is a senior researcher and co-director of the Institute for Comparative Literature Margarida Losa. Co-author of the Dictionary of Feminist Criticism and responsible for the annotated edition of New Portuguese Letters and the coordinator of the international project New Portuguese Letters 40 Years Later, financed by FCT, that involves 10 countries and over 60 researchers. Editor of several academic books, such as Novas Cartas Portuguesas entre Portugal e o Mundo, or New Portuguese Letters to the World.
Luís Carlos Patraquim is a Mozambican poet, playwright and journalist.
Nelson Saúte is a writer and Communication Sciences professor from Mozambique.
Suleiman Cassamo is a Mozambican writer. He is a member of Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos.
Teodomiro Alberto Azevedo Leite de Vasconcelos was a Mozambican journalist and writer. He was a member of Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos.
Nilto Maciel was a Brazilian writer. He wrote poetry and tales in Portuguese, Esperanto, Spanish, Italian and French.
Maria Judite de Carvalho was an author. She was Portuguese She was married to Urbano Tavares Rodrigues (1923–2013).
Maria Celestina Fernandes is an Angolan children's author. She has also written poetry and short stories, and had earlier careers as a social worker and lawyer. She has won several awards including Prémio Literário Jardim do Livro Infantil, Prémio Caxinde do Conto Infantil, and Prémio Excelência Literária.
Hirondina Juliana Francisco Joshua, best known as Hirondina Joshua, is a Mozambican poet, writer, member of Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos. She is part of the new generation of Mozambican authors.
Ana Margarida Taborda Duarte Martins de Carvalho is a Portuguese writer and journalist. The only Portuguese writer to be award with the Grande Prémio da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores (APE/DGLB) for each of her three successive works of literary fiction; they were for two novels and a short-story collection.
Raúl Alves Calane da Silva was a Mozambican writer, journalist, and poet.
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