Manoel Wenceslau Leite de Barros is a Brazilian poet. He has won many awards for his work, including twice the Prêmio Jabuti, the most important literary award in Brazil. Today he is renowned by his critics as one of the great names of contemporary Brazilian poetry, and by many authors he has been considered the greatest living poet from Brazil, like the poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade recognized Manoel de Barros as the biggest poet of Brazil.