WPedro Bandeira de Luna Filho is a Brazilian award-winning and best-selling children's novelist and poet, best known as the author of the Os Karas series of mystery novels.
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.
WAntonio Carlos Liberalli Bellotto is a Brazilian musician and writer, best known as the lead guitarist of Brazilian rock band Titãs. He has also written and released several books.
WTatiane "Tati" Bernardi Teixeira Pinto is a Brazilian short story writer, novelist, chronicler, screenwriter and journalist. Her works are particularly directed towards young women.
WFrancisco Buarque de Hollanda, popularly known simply as Chico Buarque, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer, and poet. He is best known for his music, which often includes social, economic, and cultural reflections on Brazil.
WRuy Castro is a Brazilian author and journalist. In 1996 he was a co-winner of the Prêmio Jabuti. He is known for his writings concerning Bossa nova and for his biographies, profiling figures such as Garrincha, Nelson Rodrigues and Carmen Miranda.
WPaulo Coelho de Souza is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist, best known for his novel The Alchemist. In 2014, he uploaded his personal papers online to create a virtual Paulo Coelho Foundation.
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.
WFausto Borel Cardoso, better known by his stage name Fausto Fawcett, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, rhythm guitarist, lyricist, novelist, short story writer, playwright, journalist, actor and screenwriter, famous for his frequent collaborations with fellow musician Laufer and for being a major exponent of rap rock and cyberpunk literature in Brazil. His best known compositions are the 1987 hit "Kátia Flávia, a Godiva do Irajá" and "Rio 40°", recorded by Fernanda Abreu in 1992.
WDaniel Galera is a Brazilian writer, translator and editor. He was born in São Paulo, but was raised and spent most of his life in Porto Alegre, until 2005 when he went back to São Paulo. He is considered by critics to be one of the most influential young authors in Brazilian literature. Daniel is one of the founders of the publishing house Livros do Mal and had some of his works adapted into plays and movies.
WLuiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza was a Brazilian professor and novelist, born in Rio de Janeiro. As an academic he wrote philosophy and psychology textbooks. After retiring from academia he became known as a novelist and shared the Prêmio Jabuti for Literature in 1997. He is known for his Detective fiction, in particular his Inspector Espinosa Mystery series. He had little knowledge of crime or police-work before he began writing. Some of his works have been translated into English.
WLuisa Geisler is a Brazilian writer.
WAntonio Roque Gobbo is a 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.
WJosé Paulo Lanyi is a Brazilian journalist, writer and filmmaker.
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.
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.
WLeandro Müller is a Brazilian writer. He has a double degree in Journalism and Advertising from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In addition, he studied Philosophy at the State University of Rio de Janeiro and at Porto University. Since 2004, apart from his writings, Müller has worked as an editor in publishing.
WPaula Parisot is a Brazilian writer, illustrator and artist.
WCarola Saavedra is a Chilean-born Brazilian writer.
WSilviano Santiago is a Brazilian writer, literary critic, essayist and scholar.
WAguinaldo Silva OMC is a Brazilian Emmy-winning telenovela writer born in Carpina, Brazil.
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.
WJoão Carlos Reiners Terron, writing as Joca Reiners Terron, is a Brazilian poet, novelist, designer and editor.
WCristóvão Tezza is a Brazilian novelist and university professor.
WJoão Silvério Trevisan is Brazilian author, playwright, journalist, screenwriter and film director. In his much-diversified oeuvres, he has published eleven books, among them great works of fiction, essays, short stories, and screenplays. Trevisan has been influential as a literary and cultural critic, particularly on gay and lesbian issues and his works have been translated into English, Spanish, and German.
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.
WAndré Ferreira da Silva, better known by his pen name André Vianco, is a Brazilian best-selling novelist, screenwriter, and film and television director. Specialized in urban fantasy and horror, supernatural and vampire fiction, he rose to fame in 1999 with the novel Os Sete. As of 2016, his books have sold over a million copies, and in 2018 he was named, alongside Max Mallmann, Raphael Draccon and Eduardo Spohr, one of the leading Brazilian fantasy writers of the 21st century.
WCarlos Adão "Cadão" Volpato is a Brazilian musician, artist, journalist and writer. He is best known for being the frontman of cult post-punk band Fellini.
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.