25 great Brazilian writers who must be read

A Brazilian literature is full of writers and writers of great relevance.

São people who, through their books, will contribute and contribute to the formation of the cultural identity of the country, raising reflections and tracing entertainment as a reading prazer.

Therefore, we selected 25 great names of consecrated writers, both older and contemporary.

It is worth noting that the list to follow does not follow an order of "importance" or highlights of the Brazilian dinner.

1. Conceição Evaristo (1946-)

Conceição Evaristo is a writer from Minas Gerais who also works as a university professor.

Born of humble origins, it stands out in national literature that is not the end of the XX century and the XXI century.

She was a writer contributing in 1990 to the series Cadernos Negros, organized by the Quilomboje editor and collective.

The assumptions that she addresses in poems, stories and romances are about the situation of black women, ancestrality and experiences of marginalized populations.

Reading Dica: Olhos D'água (2014).

2. Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987)

Drummond is two famous authors in our literature. Creator of important poems, stories and chronicles, born in 1902 in Minas Gerais.

His work integrates the second generation of modernism and presents diverse and universal themes, such as reflections about life, or time and love, apart from everyday images, politics and questions about inequalities.

Reading Dica: A rosa do povo (1945).

3. Manuel Bandeira (1886-1968)

Not important to the first generation of Brazilian modernism poets, Manuel Bandeira was born in 1886 in Recife, a place that portrays him even in his texts.

With a vast production, Bandeira intensely addressed issues such as death and life, perhaps because he was tuberculosis and proving that he was giving up, or that he was not. He also deals with themes such as everyday life, eroticism and childhood memories.

Reading Dica: Libertinagem (1930).

4. Lima Barreto (1881-1922)

Lima Barreto was a Rio writer who explored romance, or told a chronicle.

Strongly deluded politically, Barreto tackles the inequalities and hypocrisy of Brazilian society at the first goal of the XX century.

Adept of irony and humor, his style of writing traces, also of creativity, a journalistic and documentary character.

Reading Dica: Sad fim by Policarpo Quaresma (1915)

5. Lygia Fagundes Teles (1923-)

Lygia Fagundes Teles was known for serious stories, although she also dedicated herself to romances.

Born in São Paulo in 1923, a writer has been a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 1985 and in 2005 she received an important prize for literature, or “Prêmio Camões”, the joint hair of her work.

Lygia traced many universal assumptions in her narratives, between them or love, to death, or time to insanity.

Reading Dica: Before the Green Dance (1970)

6. Clarice Lispector (1920-1977)

Clarice Lispector was born in Ukraine in 1920, she saw a growing up for Brazil and settled in Recife with a family.

She was published for the first time, 23 years old and became one of the most acclaimed writers in the country.

Seus stories and romances are understood by their philosophical character, in which the author addresses or love, the mysteries gives life and questions to their own existence.

Reading Dica: Uma Aprendizagem ou o Livro dos Prazeres (1969)

7. Machado de Assis (1839-1908)

Considered one of the two greatest Brazilian writers of all times, Machado de Assis was the author of the first realist romance in Brazil, Posthumous Memories of Brás Cubas (1881).

I come from humble origins and come from black country and Portuguese, he was born in 1839 in Rio de Janeiro and gave manifest interest in writing.

Seu first light, Chrysalis, was published in 1864, a book of poems. But it was not told, a chronicle and no romance that fully developed his literature.

Machado de Assis has a solid work that has social criticism with irreversibility, denouncing the hypocrisy of bourgeois society of the time.

Reading Dica: Dom Casmurro (1899)

8. Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967)

O mineiro João Guimarães Rosa is two more acclaimed national writers.

Relevant to modernism, his work traces characteristics of the second and third phase of the movement, valuing or regionalism and orality, apart from presenting philosophical reflections on life and seus mistérios.

He wrote stories and romances emphasizing or sertão and innovated written with neologisms (invention of words).

He joined the Brazilian Academy of Letters and was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Reading Dica: Grande Sertão: Paths (1956)

9. João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920-1999)

Famous poet, or from Pernambuco João Cabral de Melo Neto, part of the third generation of Brazilian modernism, to Geração 45.

With great aesthetic rigor and sensitivity, he was one of the two greatest poets of Brazil, having a written marked by the valorization It gives popular culture and social criticism, apart from themes that address own poetry or ato de escrever, ou seja, a metalinguagem.

Reading Dica: Morte e Vida Severina (1955)

10. Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953)

Graciliano Ramos was born in 1892 in Alagoas and became one of the two greatest names in the second generation of Brazilian modernism.

Some of her books present social criticisms such as poverty, exploration and the dry northeast and constitute a historical panorama of the country not started in the 20th century.

Reading Dica: Dry Lives (1938)

11. Hilda Hilst (1930-2004)

As a provocative work, Hilda Hilst was one of important women in Brazilian poetry of the XX century.

Despite belatedly deserved retribution or retribution, she looked at it as some of the greatest writers of the country.

His style was innovative, showing the strength and courage to deal with issues that are expensive for women, such as sexuality and feminine liberation at a time when these were few issues addressed.

Reading Dica: Jubilee, memory, novitiate da paixão (1974)

12. Chico Buarque de Holland (1944-)

Besides a composer and musician, Chico Buarque is also a writer with a recognized literary work.

Recebeu including important prêmios, like o Prêmio Camões, which values ​​written in Portuguese language and o Prêmio Jabuti.

His romances address social and universal problems in a contemporary writing of autobiographical references.

Reading Dica: Those people (2019)

13. Luis Fernando Verissimo (1936-)

Luis Fernando Verissimo was born in Porto Alegre in 1936. Filho de Érico Verissimo, another great one that does not give me Brazilian literature, Luis Fernando has a vast published work, among stories, romances and chronicles.

O gaúcho was made known by his bem-humorous and ironic texts in which he portrays everyday human behavior.

Reading Dica: Clube dos Anjos (1998)

14. Adélia Prado (1935-)

A writer from Minas Gerais, Adélia Prado, is one of feminine references to Brazilian literature.

Its production is encaixa not modernism and is loaded with everyday elements, which it wisely transforms into mysterious events, becoming perplexed.

His most recurrent themes are related to the experience of women in a patriarchal and sexist society of the XX century.

Reading Dica: Bagagem (1976)

15. Marçal Aquino (1958-)

Marçal Aquino is a writer born in São Paulo who stands out in contemporary Brazilian literature.

Her works are presented in the language of prose, romance, story, bookkeeping and journalistic texts.

The themes that she exhibits most are connected with urban issues, especially violence, revealing the hard nature of large cities.

Reading Dica: Eu receberia as piores news two serious pretty lips (2005)

16. Cecília Meireles (1901-1964)

Writer, painter, journalist and teacher, Cecília Meireles was born from Rio in 1901 and was raised by her family. Ainda grew up she showed her interest in poetry and was 18 years old, she published her first book.

With an extensive work, Cecília is two more well-known Brazilian literature and receives numerous awards, such as Prêmio Jabuti, Prêmio Machado de Assis and Prêmio de Poesia Olavo Bilac.

He wrote in an intimate and sensitive way, also highlighting children's poetry.

Reading Dica: Poetic Anthology (1963)

17. Mário Quintana (1906-1994)

It is impossible not to quote Mário Quintana when he fails in Brazilian poetry. Dono de um bem-humorado style, or gaucho figure among the greatest poets of the country and ficou known as or "poet of simple coisas".

Not first free, To Rua dos Cataventos, published in 1940, a linguagem escolhida foi or sonnet. And from then on he built an intense career, also doing translations.

His writing of him is known for irony and portraits of everyday life.

Reading Dica: Hides of the tempo (1980)

18. Manoel de Barros (1916-2014)

As a simple poetry and a set of images that combine nature with the senses, Manoel de Barros is two outstanding names in national literature.

Born in 1916 in Cuiabá, or an esteve poet linked to modernism at the first moment. He assumes a marked style by orality and by inventing words, creating a universe in a certain surreal and mysterious way.

Reading Dica: Livro on or nothing (1996)

19. Ruth Rocha (1931-)

A child and adolescent literature in Brazil counts as an important writer, part of her, Ruth Rocha.

Member of the Paulista Academy of Letters, a paulistana has training as a sociologist and work with education as well.

With books for the children, he was awarded several times as Prêmio Jabuti.

Reading Dica: Marcelo, Marmelo, Martelo (1976)

20. Jorge Amado (1912-2001)

A great writer from Bahia, Jorge Amado deixou a production that explores overtudo or romance and story.

Some of his works by him ganharam ainda mais popularidade, pois foram adapted for television and cinema, such as Tieta do Agreste, Capitães da Areia,Dona Flor and her two husbands and Gabriela, cravo and canela.

Thus, the stories are central or northeast and address social issues, also revealing a lot of human behavior.

Reading Dica: Capitães da Areia (1937)

21. Rubem Fonseca (1925-2020)

Rubem Fonseca wrote stories, romances and roteiros. Acclaimed in Brazil, his literature exhibits a colloquial and innovative linguagem, inspiring readers and influencing gerações.

His texts appear in a rough and dry style, but at the same time, bem-humorous and dynamic. Do you fear that he treats you from a solidão to large urban centers até or eroticism.

Reading Dica: A Grande Arte (1983)

22. Ariano Suassuna (1927-2014)

Considered one of the two greatest Brazilian writers, or from Pernambuco, Ariano Suassuna was a great defender of popular culture.

In his texts, both poetry and essays, romances and theater plays, Suassuna explores regionalism and a tradition in the northeast. Assim, he mixes in a brilliant or scholarly way as popular, tracing irony, humor and social criticism.

Reading Dica: Or self gives compassion (1955)

23. Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977)

Carolina Maria de Jesus was a writer of enormous importance in Brazil, for she provides a sensitive and true story of the realities of marginalized people.

Born in Minas Gerais in 1914, she lived in the Canindé favela, in São Paulo in the 50's.

She wrote daily about her difficulties as lonely, poor and black. With the help of journalist Audálio Dantas, in 1960 she managed to publish Clearance Quarter, a work that brings together his autobiographical writings and lhe da projeção.

Reading Dica: Clearance Quarter (1960)

24. Marina Colasanti (1937-)

A writer and journalist Marina Colasanti is of African origin, but also a growing up she saw for Brazil as a family. She launched her first free, Eu Sozinha, em 1968. Since then she has devoted herself to literature, both for adults and for children.

Fairly awarded, Marina published more than 60 titles. In her works she deals with themes such as art, or love, or the feminine universe and social problems.

Reading Dica: Ripped Love Counts (1986)

25. Rubem Alves (1933-2014)

Rubem Alves was a versatile writer and intellectual. Considered not a country, he works in various areas other than literature, such as pedagogy, philosophy, theology and psychoanalysis.

He has provided many free educational guidance, becoming a great reference in this field.

There are also several works for children and young people.

Reading Dica: Happy oyster não face pérola (2008)

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