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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 was 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 on August 1, 1957, in Inhaminga, Sofala Province.
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.
Lídia Jorge is a prominent Portuguese novelist and author whose work is representative of a recent style of Portuguese writing, the so-called "Post Revolution Generation".
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.
Ignácio de Loyola Brandão is a Brazilian writer, perhaps best known as the author of the dystopian science-fiction novel Zero; the story of Brazil in the 1960s under a totalitarian regime. In 2008, he was awarded the Prêmio Jabuti for his novel O Menino que Vendia Palavras.
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 a Portuguese poet. Professor at the University of Porto, she held a Ph.D. on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and had academic publications in the areas of English and American poetry, comparative poetics, and feminist studies. She was 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.
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 a Portuguese author. She was married to Urbano Tavares Rodrigues (1923–2013).
Hirondina Joshua, is a Mozambican poet, prose writer and jurist. She is a member of the Mozambican Writers Association. The book Córtex was translated into Spanish and published in Mexico; In Brazil, her book Os Ângulos da Casa was adapted into a modern dance piece. She participated in the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the largest public celebration of the written word in the world.
Ana Margarida Taborda Duarte Martins de Carvalho is a Portuguese writer and journalist. She is 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.