WJúlia Valentina de Silveira Lopes de Almeida was one of the first Brazilian women to earn acclaim and social acceptance as a writer. In a career that spanned five decades, she wrote in a variety of literary genres; however, it is her fiction, written under the influence of the naturalists Émile Zola and Guy de Maupassant, that has captured the attention of recent critics. Her notable novels include Memórias de Marta, the first Brazilian novel to take place in an urban tenement, A Família Medeiros, and A Falência. Immensely influential and appreciated by peers like Aluísio Azevedo, João do Rio and João Luso, she is remembered as an early advocate of modernized gender roles and increased women's rights, as a precursor to later women writers like Clarice Lispector, and for her support of abolition. She was married to the poet Filinto de Almeida.
WVanessa Barbara is a Brazilian journalist and author. She is a columnist for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, having also written for the magazine piauí and the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo. Her articles are also featured in the International New York Times.
WTatiane "Tati" Bernardi Teixeira Pinto is a Brazilian short story writer, novelist, chronicler, screenwriter and journalist. Her works are particularly directed towards young women.
WMaria Benedita Câmara Bormann was a Brazilian writer who published feminist novels and other works under the pseudonym Délia.
WAndréa del Fuego, pen name of Andréa Fátima dos Santos is a Brazilian writer.
WBabi Dewet is a Brazilian novelist and author of the Sábado à Noite Trilogy. Originally a McFly FanFiction, Babi started publishing her work independently after readers' requests and sold 1,000 copies in less than a year. In 2011, her book was picked up by the Generale publishing company, and became a Trilogy with the second volume published in 2013 and the last one in 2014. In 2015, Babi released "Um Ano Inesquecivel" through Gutenberg publishing company alongside popular teen novelists Paula Pimenta, Bruna Vieira and Thalita Rebouças. She wrote a short story about love during autumn, and this book was in a bestselling list for months in Brazil. Her last book trilogy is called "Cidade da Música" and each volume will feature independent stories and characters that live in a classical music conservatory. Babi also hosts pop culture events and has a YouTube channel about books and K-Pop. She is also podcaster in podcast "K-papo" produced by the producer Half Deaf and available on Spotify.
WLuisa Geisler is a Brazilian writer.
WAna Maria Gonçalves is a Brazilian writer.
WRuth Guimarães Botelho was the first Afro-Brazilian author to gain a national audience and critical attention for her novels, short stories, and poetry. A classical scholar, she translated works from French, Italian and Spanish and studied Greek and Latin, though her works reflected fables, folklore, herbal medicines and legends of Afro-Brazil. She established several cultural preservation societies, served as head of the Ministry of Culture for Municipality of Cruzeiro, São Paulo, and was a member of the São Paulo Academy of Letters.
WAdriana Lisboa is a Brazilian writer. She is the author of six novels, and has also published poetry, short stories and books for children. Originally written in Portuguese, her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Crow Blue is Lisboa's most recent novel translated into English and was named a book of the year by The Independent (London). Her stories and poems have appeared in Granta, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Brooklyn Rail, Litro, The Missing Slate, Joyland, Sonofabook, Waxwing, and others.
WClarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, as an infant she moved to Brazil with her family, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War.
WLya Fett Luft is a Brazilian writer and a prolific translator, working mostly in the English-Portuguese and the German-Portuguese language combinations.
WLaura Malin is a Brazilian writer. She has written novels, biographies, and television and film scripts, and has worked as a reporter and editor.
WPatrícia Melo is a Brazilian author. She has written The Killer and In Praise of Lies, among others. Her works have dealt with sex and violence in a heavily urbanized setting.
WAna Miranda is a Brazilian poet and novelist born in Fortaleza, Ceará in 1951. She grew up in Brasilia and has lived in Rio de Janeiro since 1969. Her main work of note has been historical, including her award-winning 1989 novel A Boca do Inferno, which was published in English in 1991. Many of her other works have concerned the conflicts of women wanting to have careers and families.
WPaula Parisot is a Brazilian writer, illustrator and artist.
WNélida Piñon is a Brazilian author and professor. Piñon "is considered among the foremost writers in Brazil today".
WRachel de Queiroz was a Brazilian author, translator and journalist.
WCarola Saavedra is a Chilean-born Brazilian writer.
WDinah Silveira Ribeiro, better known as Diná Silveira de Queirós, was a Brazilian writer of novels, short stories, and chronicles. She published her main works between 1939 and 1955. Silveira de Queirós was a Machado de Assis Prize laureate and the "second woman to be elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters". Her novel, A Muralha was the basis for the Brazilian telenovela, A Muralha.
WLygia Fagundes da Silva Telles is a Brazilian novelist and writer. Educated as a lawyer, she began publishing soon after she completed high school and simultaneously worked as a solicitor and writer throughout most of her career. She is a recipient of the Camões Prize, the highest literary award of the Portuguese language and her works have received honors and awards from Brazil, Chile and France. She was elected as the third woman in the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1985 and holds Chair 16.
WAline Valek is a Brazilian writer, novelist, editor and illustrator. She is from Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais but moved to Brasilia early in her life. She graduated in Advertising and Propaganda at the Higher Education Institute of Brasilia, Brazil. She has published two books and currently works as a columnist for Carta Capital, a Brazilian weekly magazine.
WLuize Valente, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, of Portuguese and German origins, is a writer and documentary filmmaker, author of historical novels and awarded documentaries, and a journalist.
WLetícia Wierzchowski is a Brazilian novelist best known for her novels A Casa das Sete Mulheres and Uma Ponte para Terebin. She has written fourteen other novels and children's books.
WFernanda Maria Young de Carvalho Machado, commonly known as Fernanda Young, was a Brazilian writer, screenwriter, television presenter, model and actress.