Sérgio Marcus Rangel Porto (January 11, 1923 in Rio de Janeiro – September 30, 1968) was a Brazilian columnist, writer, broadcaster and composer. He was better known by his pen name Stanislaw Ponte Preta.[1] Sergio began his journalistic career in the late 1940s, working in publications such as Sombra and Manchete magazines and newspapers Ultima Hora, Tribuna da Imprensa and Diário Carioca. In the same period Tomás Santa Rosa also acted in several newspapers and newsletters as an illustrator. It was then that the character Stanislaw Ponte Preta and his satirical and critical chronicles was born, a creation of Sergio along with Santa Rosa - the character's first illustrator - inspired by the character Serafim Ponte Grande by Oswald de Andrade. Porto has also contributed to music publications and wrote musical shows for nightclubs, as well as composing the song "Samba do Crioulo Doido" for revue theater. He was also the creator and producer of the beauty pageant's As Certinhas do Lalau, which featured vedettes such as Anilza Leoni, Diana Morel, Rose Rondelli, Maria Pompeo,and Irma Alvarez, and of the FEBEAPÁ - Festival de Besteira que Assola o País (Festival of Nonsense which Sweeps the Country),a news satire column where he made corrosive jokes against the military dictatorship, and the social moralism of his time.[2][3] Porto died in 1968, before the dictatorship's Institutional Act n°5, that established censorship in the Brazilian press.

Walter Campos de Carvalho (Uberaba, 1º de novembro de 1916 — São Paulo, 10 de abril de 1998), foi um escritor cujos trabalhos são singulares na literatura brasileira. Em 1938 formou-se em direito, tendo se aposentado como procurador do estado de São Paulo, onde viveu em companhia da esposa Lygia Rosa de Carvalho. Sua vida sempre esteve ligada à literatura, tendo publicado inicialmente Banda forra (ensaios humorísticos), em 1941, e Tribo (romance), em 1954. Mais tarde, escreveu os romances A Lua vem da Ásia (1956), Vaca de Nariz Sutil (1961), A Chuva Imóvel (1963) e O Púcaro Búlgaro (1964), hoje considerados verdadeiros marcos da literatura brasileira. A Lua vem da Ásia e A Chuva Imóvel chegaram a ser traduzidos para o francês. Campos de Carvalho, como ficou conhecido no meio literário, também colaborou com O Pasquim e trabalhou no jornal O Estado de S. Paulo, no período de 1968 a 1978.

Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto nasceu em 1881 na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Enfrentou o preconceito por ser mestiço durante a vida. Ficou órfão aos sete anos de idade de mãe e, algum tempo depois, seu pai foi trabalhar como almoxarife em um asilo de loucos chamado Colônia de Alienados da Ilha do Governador. Concluiu o curso secundário na Escola Politécnica, contudo, teve que abandonar a faculdade de Engenharia, pois seu pai havia sido internado, vítima de loucura, e o autor foi obrigado a arcar com as despesas de casa. Como leu bastante após a conclusão do segundo grau, sua produção textual era de excelente qualidade, foi então que iniciou sua atividade como jornalista, sendo colaborador da imprensa. Contribuiu para as principais revistas de sua época: Brás Cubas, Fon-Fon, Careta, etc. No entanto, o que o sustentava era o emprego como escrevente na Secretaria de Guerra, onde aposentaria em 1918. Não foi reconhecido na literatura de sua época, apenas após sua morte. Viveu uma vida boêmia, solitária e entregue à bebida. Quando tornou-se alcoólatra, foi internado duas vezes na Colônia de Alienados na Praia Vermelha, em razão das alucinações que sofria durante seus estados de embriaguez. Lima Barreto fez de suas experiências pessoais canais de temáticas para seus livros. Em seus livros denunciou a desigualdade social, como em Clara dos Anjos; o racismo sofrido pelos negros e mestiços e também as decisões políticas quanto à Primeira República. Além disso, revelou seus sentimentos quanto ao que sofreu durante suas internações no Hospício Nacional em seu livro O cemitério dos vivos. Sua principal obra foi Triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma, no qual relata a vida de um funcionário público, nacionalista fanático, representado pela figura de Policarpo Quaresma. Dentre os desejos absurdos desta personagem está o de resolver os problemas do país e o de oficializar o tupi como língua brasileira.

Caetano Emanuel Vianna Telles Velloso (born August 7, 1942), better known as Caetano Veloso, is a composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. He has been called "one of the greatest songwriters of the century" and is sometimes considered to be the Bob Dylan of Brazil. Veloso is most known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship. Veloso was born in Bahia, a state in the northeastern area of Brazil, but moved to Rio de Janeiro as a college student in the mid-1960s. Soon after the move, Veloso won a music contest and was signed to his first label. He became one of the founders of Tropicalismo with a group of several other musicians and artists—including his sister Maria Bethânia—in the same period. However the Brazilian government at the time viewed Veloso's music and political action as threatening, and he was arrested, along with fellow musician Gilberto Gil, in 1969. The two eventually were exiled from Brazil, and went to London, where they lived for two years. After he moved back to his home country, in 1972, Veloso once again began recording and performing, becoming popular outside of Brazil in the 1980s and 1990s. He has so far won five Latin Grammy Awards. He recorded his first all-English album, A Foreign Sound in 2004. The album contains many American standards. From Wikipedia

Ferreira Gullar is the pen name for José Ribamar Ferreira, Brazilian poet, playwright, essayist, art critic, and television writer. In 1959 he formed the "Neo-Concretes" group of poets. Living in Chile, in 1975, Ferreira Gullar wrote his best known work, "Poema Sujo". He was exiled by the Brazilian dictatorial government that lasted from 1964 to 1985. The poem states that the persecution of the exiles was growing, many were being found dead, and, thinking hypothetically of his death, he decided to write his last poem. He spent months writing this poem with more than two thousand verses, which brings forth his memories of his childhood and adolescence in São Luís, Maranhão and the anguishes of being far from his land. Ferreira Gullar read the poem at Augusto Boal's house in Buenos Aires, in a meeting organized by Vinicius de Moraes. The reading, recorded on tape, became well known among Brazilian intellectuals, who tried to guarantee Gullar's return to Brazil in 1977, where he continued writing for newspapers and publishing books. He was considered one of the most influential Brazilians of the XX century by Época magazine. Gullar keeps a weekly column at Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, publishing it every sunday.

João Antônio Ferreira Filho was a Brazilian journalist and short story writer, who became known for portraying the lives of marginalized people inhabiting the outskirts of large cities, such as bandits, workers, vagrants and malandros. Born into a family of small shopkeepers in a suburb of São Paulo, João Antônio worked in low paid jobs before releasing his first collection of short stories, Malagueta, Perus e Bacanaço, in 1963, for which he won several awards: two Jabuti Prizes (best new author and best book of short stories), the Prêmio Fabio Prado and the Prêmio Municipal da Cidade de São Paulo. The double Jabuti award was an unprecedented feat for a rookie writer. Malagueta was originally written in 1960 but the manuscript was destroyed in a fire. Antonio then spent the following two years rewriting it. This literary success led him into a career in journalism, his first job being with the Jornal do Brasil. He was a member of the founding team of Realidade magazine (1966), which published the first short story of Brazilian journalism, Um Dia No Cais (1968). He subsequently worked for Manchete magazine, the newspaper O Pasquim and various alternative press outlets, opposing the military regime in Brazil. During this period, João Antonio alternated residence between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In 1967, he married Marilia Mendonça Andrade; his only son, Daniel Pedro, was born in the same year. In the late 1960s he decided to radically change his life. He quit his job, sold his car, left his wife and began to devote himself entirely to literature. Antônio wrote fifteen books in total, but he always refused to participate in ceremonies and to join groups and literary academies, only accepting invitations to speak at schools and universities. He traveled throughout Brazil in 1978 and Europe in 1985. In 1987 he was awarded a scholarship and settled in Germany, where he remained until 1989. During this period, he also visited the Netherlands and Poland, holding numerous conferences. Antônio died alone in 1996, in Rio de Janeiro, his body only being discovered fifteen days after his death.

Sérgio Marcus Rangel Porto foi um cronista, escritor, radialista e compositor brasileiro. Era mais conhecido por seu pseudônimo Stanislaw Ponte Preta. Sérgio começou sua carreira jornalística no final dos anos 40, atuando em publicações como as revistas Sombra e Manchete e os jornais Última Hora, Tribuna da Imprensa e Diário Carioca. Nesse mesmo período Tomás Santa Rosa também atuava em vários jornais e boletins como ilustrador. Foi aí que surgiu o personagem Stanislaw Ponte Preta e suas crônicas satíricas e críticas, uma criação de Sérgio juntamente com Santa Rosa - o primeiro ilustrador do personagem -, inspirado no personagem Serafim Ponte Grande de Oswald de Andrade. Porto também contribuiu com publicações sobre música e escreveu shows musicais para boates, além de compor a música "Samba do Crioulo Doido" para o teatro rebolado. Foi também o criador e produtor do concurso de beleza As Certinhas do Lalau, onde figuravam vedetes de primeira grandeza, como Anilza Leoni, Diana Morel, Rose Rondelli, Maria Pompeo, Irma Alvarez e muitas outras. Conhecedor de Música Popular Brasileira e jazz, ele definia a verdadeira MPB pela sigla MPBB - Música Popular Bem Brasileira. Era boêmio, de um admirável senso de humor e sua aparência de homem sisudo escondia um intelectual peculiar capaz de fazer piadas corrosivas contra a ditadura militar e o moralismo social vigente, que fazem parte do FEBEAPÁ - Festival de Besteiras que Assola o País, uma de suas maiores criações.

Lygia Fagundes Telles (born April 19, 1923) is a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in São Paulo and is one of Brazil's most important living writers. Her first book of short stories, Praia Viva (Living Beach), was published in 1944. In 1949 got the Afonso Arinos award for her short stories book O Cacto Vermelho (Red Cactus). Among her most successful books are Ciranda de Pedra (The Marble Dance) (1954), Verão no Aquário (1963), Antes do Baile Verde (1970), Seminário dos Ratos (1977) and As Horas Nuas, (1989). The book Antes do Baile Verde won the Best Foreign Women Writers Grand Prix in Cannes (France) in 1969. Her most famous novel is As Meninas (The Girl in the Photograph), which tells the story of three young women in the early 1970s, a hard time in the political history of Brazil due to the repression by the military dictatorship. In 2005 she won the Camões Prize, the greatest literary award in the Portuguese language.[1] She is one of the three female members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. From Wikipedia

Millôr Fernandes is a Brazilian cartoonist, humorist and playwright. Started his journalistic career already in 1938, publishing in several Brazilian magazines. In 1956, Millôr shared with Saul Steinberg the first prize at the Buenos Aires International Caricature Exhibition, and in 1957 he had a one-man exhibition in Rio de Janeiro's Museum of Modern Art. Together with Jaguar, Ziraldo and others, he founded in 1969 the groundbreaking satirical newspaper O Pasquim. Millôr has written a number of successful plays, and has also translated classics such as Shakespeare.

Moacyr Jaime Scliar (born March 23, 1937) is a Brazilian writer and physician. Scliar is best known outside Brazil for his 1981 novel Max and the Cats (Max e os Felinos), the story of a young man who flees Berlin after he comes to the attention of the Nazis for having had an affair with a married woman. Making his way to Brazil, his ship sinks, and he finds himself alone in a dinghy with a jaguar who had been travelling in the hold.[1] The story of the jaguar and the boy was picked up by Yann Martel for his own book Life of Pi, winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize, in which Pi is trapped in a lifeboat with a tiger

Marques Rebelo (nome literário de Edi Dias da Cruz), jornalista, contista, cronista, novelista e romancista, nasceu no Rio de Janeiro, RJ, em 6 de janeiro de 1907, e faleceu na mesma cidade em 26 de agosto de 1973. Era filho do químico Manuel Dias da Cruz Neto e de D. Rosa Reis Dias da Cruz. Sua infância dividiu-se entre Vila Isabel, onde nasceu, e a cidade mineira de Barbacena, para onde sua família se mudou quando ele tinha quatro anos. O que nunca lhe faltou, no Rio ou em Minas, foi um terreno baldio para jogar futebol e livros para ler. Além dos livros de ficção da biblioteca de seu pai, aos onze anos já tinha lido autores que os outros só leem quando adultos: Buffon, Flaubert, Balzac e os clássicos portugueses. Aos 15 anos o conhecimento de Machado de Assis e Manuel Antônio de Almeida iria despertar nele a “coceira de escrever” de que nunca mais se libertaria. Prosseguiu seus estudos e, no início dos anos de 1920, ingressou na Faculdade de Medicina, que logo abandonou para se dedicar ao comércio. Dedicou-se ao jornalismo profissional no mesmo período. Publicou poemas nas revistas modernistas Verde, Antropofagia, Leite Crioulo e outras. Escreveu seus primeiros contos por volta de 1927, quando fazia o Serviço Militar. Oscarina, publicado em 1931, é, em grande parte, fruto de sua vivência na caserna, que se transformou em literatura graças a uma queda sofrida numa competição esportiva que o reteve meses numa cama de hospital, onde ele aproveitava o tempo para escrever. Juntamente com a decisão de abandonar a poesia e se tornar ficcionista, o escritor tomou a de rebatizar-se. Questionado porque adotou o pseudônimo de Marques Rebelo, Edi Dias da Cruz explicou: “Nome de família muitas vezes atrapalha. Devido à campanha que fizeram contra os modernistas na Semana de Arte Moderna, justamente na época e por influência da mesma senti que tinha vocação para a literatura e resolvi adotar esse pseudônimo, evitando assim sofrimentos para a família.” Dois anos depois de Oscarina, veio a público Três caminhos, volume composto pelas novelas “Namorada”, “Vejo a lua no céu” e “Circo de cavalinhos”, e o romance Marafa, em 1935, laureado com o Grande Prêmio de Romance Machado de Assis, da Cia. Editora Nacional. O grande êxito viria em 1939 com A estrela sobe, romance de uma jovem suburbana que “vence” no rádio, a grande fábrica de ilusões da década de 1930. Marques Rebelo integrou a geração que fez o Romance de 30, inserido na linha da literatura de acusação e de denúncia da miséria brasileira. Foi o romancista do Rio de Janeiro, sobretudo de sua gente simples e humilde. Para ele, o Rio era a Zona Norte, de onde vinha o Carnaval e onde ia buscar a maioria dos seus personagens da baixa classe média. Escreveu sobre futebol, viagens e sobre Manuel Antônio de Almeida, o primeiro romancista brasileiro a retratar a vida urbana do Rio de Janeiro. Depois de Manuel Antônio de Almeida, Machado de Assis e Lima Barreto, Marques Rebelo foi o mais apaixonado pintor da vida carioca. Mas o Rio por ele descrito já desapareceu, pois ele retratou a cidade nos últimos anos pré-industriais, quando na Tijuca ainda se faziam serenatas, a Lapa estava no auge e casais de namorados passeavam de bonde. Depois de anos de paciente trabalho, publicou, em 1959, O Trapicheiro, seguido de mais dois volumes: A mudança (1962) e A Guerra está entre nós (1968), que formam o grande e inconcluso romance cíclico O espelho partido, painel fragmentário da vida brasileira, especialmente carioca, na primeira metade do século.

Zuenir Carlos Ventura é um jornalista e escritor brasileiro. É colunista do jornal O Globo e da revista Época. Ganhou o Prêmio Jabuti em 1995, na categoria reportagem, pelo livro Cidade Partida.

I was born in Alegrete, on the 30th of July 1906. I believe that was the first thing that happened to me. And now they have asked me to speak of myself. Well! I always thought that every confession that wasn’t altered by art is indecent. My life is in my poems, my poems are myself, never have I written a comma that wasn’t a confession. Ah! but what they want are details, rawness, gossip...Here we go! I am 78 years old, but without age. Of ages, there are only two: either you are alive or dead. In the latter case, it is too old, because what was promised to us was eternity. I was born in the rigor of the winter, temperature: 1 degree °C; and still I was premature, which would leave me kind of complexed because I used to think I wasn’t ready. One day I discovered that someone as complete as Winston Churchill was born premature - the same thing happened to Sir Issac Newton! Excusez du peu... I prefer to cite the opinion of others about me. They say I am modest. On the contrary, I am so proud that I think I never reached the height of my writing. Because poetry is insatisfaction, an affliction of self-elevation. A satisfied poet doesn’t satisfy. They say I am timid. Nothing of the sort! I am very quiet, introspective. I don’t know why they subject the introverts to treatment. Only for not being as annoying at the rest? It is exactly for detesting annoyingness, the lengthiness, that I love synthesis. Another element of poetry is the search for the form (not of the form), the dosage of words. Perhaps what contributes to my safety is the fact that I have been a practitioner of pharmacy for five years. Note that the same happened with Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Alberto de Oliveira, Erico Verissimo - they well know (or knew) what a loving fight with words means.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, often known as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho, (June 21, 1839, Rio de Janeiro—September 29, 1908, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer. He is widely regarded as the most important writer of Brazilian literature. However, he did not gain widespread popularity outside Brazil in his own lifetime. Machado's works had a great influence on Brazilian literary schools of the late 19th century and 20th century. José Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, Susan Sontag and Harold Bloom are among his admirers and Bloom calls him "the supreme black literary artist to date."

Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, she was brought to Brazil as an infant, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War. She grew up in northeastern Brazil, where her mother died when she was nine. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio she began publishing her first journalistic work and short stories, catapulting to fame at age 23 with the publication of her first novel, 'Near to the Wild Heart' (Perto do Coração Selvagem), written as an interior monologue in a style and language that was considered revolutionary in Brazil. She left Brazil in 1944, following her marriage to a Brazilian diplomat, and spent the next decade and a half in Europe and the United States. Upon return to Rio de Janeiro in 1959, she began producing her most famous works, including the stories of Family Ties (Laços de Família), the great mystic novel The Passion According to G.H. (A Paixão Segundo G.H.), and the novel many consider to be her masterpiece, Água Viva. Injured in an accident in 1966, she spent the last decade of her life in frequent pain, steadily writing and publishing novels and stories until her premature death in 1977. She has been the subject of numerous books and references to her, and her works are common in Brazilian literature and music. Several of her works have been turned into films, one being 'Hour of the Star' and she was the subject of a recent biography, Why This World, by Benjamin Moser.

José 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. He wrote some works under pen name Erasmo. He is patron of the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. José de Alencar was born in what is today the bairro of Messejana on May 1, 1829, to priest (and later senator) José Martiniano Pereira de Alencar and his cousin Ana Josefina de Alencar. Moving to São Paulo in 1844, he graduated in Law at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo in 1850 and starts to follow his lawyer career at Rio de Janeiro. Invited by his friend Francisco Otaviano, he becomes a collaborator for journal Correio Mercantil. He also wrote for the Diário do Rio de Janeiro and the Jornal do Commercio. The house of José de Alencar, in Messejana It was in the Diário do Rio de Janeiro, during the year of 1856, that Alencar gained notoriety, writing the Cartas sobre A Confederação dos Tamoios, under the pseudonym Ig. In those, he criticized the homonymous poem by Gonçalves de Magalhães. Also in 1856, he wrote and published under feuilleton form his first romance: Cinco Minutos. He was a personal friend of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Coincidentally, Alencar is the patron of the chair Assis occupied. He died in Rio de Janeiro in 1877, a victim of tuberculosis.

José Oswald de Andrade Souza (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian poet and polemicist. He was born and spent most of his life in São Paulo. Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism and a member of the Group of Five, along with Mário de Andrade, Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral and Menotti del Picchia. He participated in the Week of Modern Art (Semana de Arte Moderna). Andrade is best known for his manifesto of Brazilian nationalism, Manifesto Antropófago (Cannibal Manifesto), published in 1928. Its argument is that Brazil's history of "cannibalizing" other cultures is its greatest strength, while playing on the modernists' primitivist interest in cannibalism as an alleged tribal rite. Cannibalism becomes a way for Brazil to assert itself against European postcolonial cultural domination. The Manifesto's iconic line is "Tupi or not Tupi: that is the question." The line is simultaneously a celebration of the Tupi, who had been at times accused of cannibalism (most notoriously by Hans Staden), and an instance of cannibalism: it eats Shakespeare. Born into a wealthy family, Andrade used his money and connections to support numerous modernist artists and projects. He sponsored the publication of several major novels of the period, produced a number of experimental plays, and supported several painters, including Tarsila do Amaral, with whom he had a long affair, and Lasar Segall. His role in the modernist community was made somewhat awkward, however, by his feud with Mário de Andrade, which lasted from 1929 (after Oswald de Andrade published a pseudonymous essay mocking Mário for effeminacy) until Mário de Andrade's untimely death in 1945.

Ivan Pinheiro Themudo Lessa (born May 9, 1935 to June 9, 2012) is a Brazilian journalist[1] and writer[2] of American descent. Born in São Paulo, he is the son of the journalist and writer Elsie Lessa and the writer Orígenes Lessa and the father of the British writer Juliana Foster. Lessa edited and wrote for the newspaper O Pasquim,[1] in which he authored the sections "Gip-Gip-Nheco-Nheco", "Fotonovelas" (Photo-soap-operas) and "Os Diários de Londres" (The London Journals), written in 'partnership' with his heteronym "Edélsio Tavares". He has published three books: Garotos da Fuzarca (Rogue Lads, short stories, 1986), Ivan Vê o Mundo (Ivan Sees the World, 1999) and O Luar e a Rainha (The Moonlight and the Queen, 2005). He also translated Truman Capote's In Cold Blood to Portuguese. Lessa lived in London, where he wrote and broadcasts in the Brazilian BBC news website.

João Paulo Cuenca é formado em economia pela UFRJ, mas começou sua trajetória literária no Folhetim Bizarro (1999-2001), um blog de diálogos na internet. Ao mesmo tempo, começou a escrever o seu primeiro romance Corpo Presente, sendo chamado a publicá-lo pela editora Planeta em 2003. No mesmo ano o autor foi palestrante convidado da FLIP – Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty. Nos anos seguintes participou da Feira do Livro de Madrid, na Espanha, do Hay Festival Cartagena das Índias, na Colômbia, da Feira Internacional do Livro de Lima, no Peru, do Correntes D´escritas, em Portugal, da Bienal do Livro do Rio de Janeiro, entre outros. Em 2007, foi selecionado pelo Festival de Hay e pela organização do festival Bogotá Capital Mundial do Livro como um dos 39 autores mais destacados da América Latina com menos de 39 anos. J.P. Cuenca escreveu crônicas semanais para a Tribuna da Imprensa e para o Jornal do Brasil entre 2003 e 2005. Teve uma coluna mensal na Revista TPM entre 2004 e 2006. Foi cronista do suplemento Megazine do jornal O Globo entre 2006 e 2010. Desde 2009 João Paulo Cuenca é comentarista de cultura do Estúdio i, da Globo News. Em 2012 a editora LeYa publicou o livro A Última Madrugada, em que o personagem é a cidade, esta que figura como foco principal do livro. A obra reuniu crô­ni­cas publi­ca­das em jor­nais entre 2003 e 2010, período em que o autor escre­veu sema­nal­mente para a Tribuna da Imprensa, Jornal do Brasil e O Globo. Cuenca foi selecionado em 2012 como um dos 20 melhores jovens escritores da revista britânica Granta, "que indica os nomes que irão construir o mapa da literatura brasileira". No Brasil a revista é publicada pelo selo Alfaguara, que pertence à editora Objetiva. Fonte: Wikipédia

Mário 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 (Hallucinated City) in 1922. He has had an enormous influence on Brazilian literature in the 20th and 21st centuries, and as a scholar and essayist—he was a pioneer of the field of ethnomusicology—his influence has reached far beyond Brazil. Andrade was the central figure in the avant-garde movement of São Paulo for twenty years. Trained as a musician and best known as a poet and novelist, Andrade was personally involved in virtually every discipline that was connected with São Paulo modernism, and became Brazil's national polymath. He was the driving force behind the Week of Modern Art, the 1922 event that reshaped both literature and the visual arts in Brazil. After working as a music professor and newspaper columnist he published his great novel, Macunaíma, in 1928. At the end of his life, he became the founding director of São Paulo's Department of Culture, formalizing a role he had long held as the catalyst of the city's—and the nation's—entry into artistic modernity. From Wikipedia

Nascido em Porto Alegre e filho do também escritor Érico Verissimo, Luis Fernando Verissimo é famoso por suas crônicas cheias de ironia humorística. Além de escritor, ele também é jornalista, publicitário, cartunista e tradutor. Entre suas paixões, estão a família, o time de paixão, Internacional de Porto Alegre, e o jazz sendo praticamente inseparável de seu saxofone. Seus amigos o definem como "uma pessoa que fala escrevendo". Em público, ele é tímido e de forma alguma aparenta ser o autor de seus irreverentes textos. É considerado o escritor que mais vende livros no Brasil.

Martha Medeiros nasceu em Porto Alegre em 20 de agosto de 1961 e é formada em Comunicação Social. Como poeta, publicou os seguintes livros: Strip Tease (Brasiliense, 1985), Meia-Noite e Um Quarto (L&PM, 1987) Persona Non Grata (L&PM, 1991), De Cara Lavada (L&PM, 1995), Poesia Reunida (L&PM, 1999) e Cartas Extraviadas e Outros Poemas (L&PM, 2001). Em maio de 1995 lançou seu primeiro livro de crônicas, Geração Bivolt (Artes & Ofícios), onde reuniu artigos publicados em Zero Hora e textos inéditos. Em 1996 lançou o guia Santiago do Chile, Crônicas e Dicas de Viagem, fruto dos oito meses em que viveu na capital chilena. Seu segundo livro de crônicas, Topless (L&PM, 1997), ganhou o Prêmio Açorianos de Literatura. É autora dos best-sellers Trem-Bala, Doidas e santas e Feliz por nada. Seu romance Divã, lançado pela editora Objetiva, já vendeu mais de 50.000 exemplares e também virou peça de teatro, com Lilia Cabral no papel principal. Martha ainda escreveu um livro infantil chamado Esquisita Como Eu, pela editora Projeto, e o livro de ficção Selma e Sinatra. É colunista dos jornais Zero Hora e O Globo, além de colaborar para outras publicações.

Elsie Lessa was a Brazilian journalist and writer of American descent. She was hired as a reporter for the newspaper O Globo in 1946. From 1952 till her death in May 2000, she wrote continuously for the paper. No other writer had a permanent role with the paper for so long. She was considered one of the two most beautiful women of her day in Rio de Janeiro, along with Adalgisa Nery). The writer Rubem Braga tells of how he followed her for a long time through the streets of downtown São Paulo, just to enjoy her beauty and grace. The writer Ruy Castro, in his book Ela é Carioca said of her: "Elsie has to be placed beside the greatest masters of a genre in the language, like Rubem Braga, Paulo Mendes Campos and Fernando Sabino". She was a granddaughter of the writer and grammarian Júlio Ribeiro, patron of the 24th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and the creator of the flag of the State of São Paulo. She was married to the writer Orígenes Lessa, with whom she had a son, the writer and journalist Ivan Lessa. Lessa later married journalist and writer Ivan Pedro de Martins. She is the grandmother of the writer Juliana Foster, and aunt and godmother of the writer and translator Sergio Pinheiro Lopes.

Nelson Falcão Rodrigues (August 23, 1912 – December 21, 1980) was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Vestido de Noiva (The Wedding Dress), considered revolutionary for the complex exploration of its characters' psychology and its use of colloquial dialog. He went on to write many other seminal plays and today is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest playwright. Nelson Rodrigues was born on August 23, 1912 in Recife, the capital of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, to Mario Rodrigues, a journalist, and his wife, Maria Esther Falcão. In 1916, the family moved to Rio de Janeiro after Mario ran into trouble for criticizing a powerful local politician. In Rio, Mario rose through the ranks of one of the city's major newspaper and, in 1925, launched his own newspaper, a sensationalist daily. By fourteen Nelson was covering the police beat for his father; by fifteen he had dropped out of school; and by sixteen he was writing his own column. The family's economic situation improved steadily, allowing them to move from lower-middle class Zona Norte to what was then the exclusive neighborhood of Copacabana. In less than two years the family's fortunes would be reversed spectacularly. In 1929, older brother Roberto, a talented graphic artist, was shot and killed at the newspaper offices by a society lady who objected to the salacious coverage of her divorce. Devastated by his son's death, Mario Rodrigues died a few months later of a stroke, and shortly after that the family newspaper was closed by military forces supporting the Revolution of 1930, which the newspaper had fiercely opposed in its editorials. The ensuing years were dark ones for the Rodrigues family, and Nelson and his brothers were forced to seek work at rival newspapers for low wages. To make matters worse, in 1934 Nelson was diagnosed with tuberculosis, a disease that plagued him, on an off, for the next ten years. During this time Rodrigues held various jobs including comic strip editor, sports columnists and opera critic. In 1941, he wrote his first play A Mulher Sem Pecado (The Woman Without Sin), to mixed reviews. His following play, Vestido de Noiva (The Wedding Dress), was hailed as a watershed in Brazilian theater and is considered among his masterpieces. It began a fruitful collaboration with Polish émigré director Zbigniew Ziembinski, who is reported to have said on reading The Wedding Dress, "I am unaware of anything in world theater today that resembles this." In the play, set while the female chief character is hit by a car in the street and undergoes surgery, the stage is divided in three planes: one for real life action happening around the character, another for her memories, a third for her dying hallucinations. As the three planes overlap, actual reality melds with memory and delusion[1]. Rodrigues' next play, 1946 Álbum de família (Family Album)- the chronicle of a semi-mythical family living outside society and mired in incest, rape and murder - was so controversial that it was censored and only allowed to be staged 21 years later. In all, Rodrigues wrote 17 full-length plays. They include Toda Nudez Será Castigada (All Nudity Shall Be Punished), Dorotéia, and Beijo no Asfalto (The Asphalt Kiss, or, better, The Kiss on Asphalt[2]), all considered classics of the Brazilian stage. His plays are frequently divided in three groups: Psychological, mythical and Carioca tragedies. In his Carioca tragedies Rodrigues explored the lives of Rio’s lower-middle class, a population never deemed worthy of the stage before Rodrigues. From the beginning his plays shocked audiences and attracted the attention of censors. In spite of his success as a playwright, Rodrigues never dedicated himself exclusively to theater. In the 1950s, besides writing the hugely successful column A Vida Como Ela É (Life As It Is), he also wrote soap operas, movie scripts, a

Nasceu em Belo Horizonte em 1964 e morou no Rio de Janeiro, onde tocou no grupo Tao e Qual. Hoje mora em São Paulo. É autor dos livros Amor (1998) e Sexo (1999). Considerado um dos maiores talentos da literatura brasileira atual, teve um texto publicado na antologia Os cem melhores contos da literatura brasileira (Objetiva). Obras: Amor, 1998 Sexo, 1999 Amor e outras histórias, 2001 O paraíso é bem bacana, 2006 Inverdades, 2009