Writers and Poets
- Álvares de Azevedo (1831–1852), poet and writer
- Alfredo D'Escragnolle Taunay (1843–1871), writer and historian
- Augusto dos Anjos (1884–1914), poet
- Antônio Gonçalves Dias (1823–1864), poet
- Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902–1987), poet and writer
- Cecília Meireles (1901–1964), poet
- Clarice Lispector (1925–1977), writer
- Érico Verissimo (1905–1975), writer
- Fernando Sabino (1923–2004), writer
- Ferreira Gullar, writer and poet
- Gustavo Dourado, (1960-) writer and poet
- Haroldo de Campos (1929–2003), poet
- Holdemar Menezes (1921–1996) writer
- João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920–1999), poet
- João Guimarães Rosa (1908–1967), writer
- Jorge Amado (1912–2001), writer
- José de Alencar (1829–1877), writer
- Luis Fernando Veríssimo (born 1936), writer
- Lya Luft (born 1938), writer and poet
- Machado de Assis (1839–1908), writer
- Manuel Bandeira (1886–1968), poet
- Maria Clara Machado (1921–2001), playwright
- Mário de Andrade (1893–1945), writer
- Márcio Souza (born 1946), writer
- Menotti del Picchia, critic and writer
- Monteiro Lobato (1882–1948), writer and publisher
- Nelson Rodrigues (1912–1980), journalist and writer
- Oduvaldo Vianna Filho (1936–1974), playwright
- Olavo Bilac (1865–1918), poet
- Otto Maria Carpeaux (1900–1978), critic
- Oswald de Andrade (1890–1954), writer and critic
- Paulo Coelho (born 1947), writer
- Vinícius de Morais (1913–1980), poet
- Luiz Duarte (born 1956), writer, playwright, and screenplaywriter
- Paulo Fernando Craveiro (born 1934) romance writer, chronicalist, poet, journalist
Read more about this topic: List Of Brazilians
Famous quotes containing the words writers and/or poets:
“Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.”
—Lorenz Hart (1895–1943)
“The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient.... They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.”
—Strabo (c. 58 B.C.–c. 24 A.D., Greek geographer. Geographia, bk. 1, sct. 2, subsct. 8.