1. Vitorino Nemésio (1901)

Portuguese Writer

Portuguese poet and author who published the popular romance novel, Mau Tempo No Canal, in 1944. His other works include the poetry collection Canto Matinal and the novel Varanda de...

2. Miguel Torga (1907)

Portuguese Writer

Prominent Portuguese fiction writer, poet, and playwright of the Twentieth Century who was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize for Literature. His most famous works include Contos da Montanha,...

3. Alves Redol (1911)

Portuguese Writer

Prominent Portuguese neorealist author and journalist whose best-known novels include Gaibeus, Mares, and Fanga. He is perhaps most famous for his 1962 work, Barranco de Cegos.

4. Natália Correia (1923)

Portuguese Writer

Politically active poet who wrote the lyrics for the regional anthem of the Azores. Her other literary works include Comunicacco, Rio de Nuvens, and Matria.

5. Agustina Bessa-Luís (1922)

Portuguese Writer

Agustina Bessa-Luís GOSE is a Portuguese writer. From 1986 and 1987 she was Director of the daily O Primeiro de Janeiro. From 1990 to 1993 she was director of the...

6. Alice Vieira (1943)

Portuguese Writer

Alice Vieira is a Portuguese children's book author.

7. Luís Filipe Teixeira (1959)

Portuguese Writer

Luis Filipe de Bragança e Sousa da Silva Teixeira Portuguese essayist and University teacher. He has a PhD in Portuguese Studies and 19th Century Portuguese Culture by the Universidade Nova...

8. Miguel Sousa Tavares (1952)

Portuguese Writer

Miguel Andresen de Sousa Tavares is a Portuguese lawyer journalist and writer. The son of poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and lawyer and politician Francisco Sousa Tavares Miguel received...

9. Helga Moreira (Unknow)

Portuguese Writer

Helga Moreira is a Portuguese poet. She was born in Guarda on April 29 1950. She has lived in Porto since 1968. She published her first book in 1978 and...

10. Orlando da Costa (Unknow)

Portuguese Writer

Orlando António Fernandes da Costa was a Portuguese writer of Goan descent on his father Luís Afonso Maria da Costa's side and of Portuguese and French on his mother Amélia...

11. António Ferreira (Unknow)

Portuguese Writer

António Ferreira was a Portuguese poet and the foremost representative of the classical school founded by Francisco de Sá de Miranda. His most considerable work Castro is the first tragedy...

12. José Agostinho de Macedo (1761)

Portuguese Writer

José Agostinho de Macedo is a Portuguese poet and prose writer was born at Beja of plebeian family and studied Latin and rhetoric with the Oratorians in Lisbon Portugal.

13. Wenceslau de Moraes (1854)

Portuguese Writer

slau de Moraes in modern orthography Venceslau de Morais was a Portuguese writer whose works were steeped in orientalism and exoticism particularly the culture of Japan. He has been compared...

14. Camilo Pessanha (1867)

Portuguese Writer

Camilo Pessanha was a Portuguese symbolist poet.

15. Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão (1938)

Portuguese Writer

Hasse Pais Brandão was a Portuguese poet dramatist translator and essayist.

16. Gil Vicente (1465)

Portuguese Writer

Gil Vicente called the Trobadour was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays.

17. Nuno Júdice (1949)

Portuguese Writer

Nuno Judice is an essayist poet writer novelist and Professor. Poet and fiction writer his literary debut was with the Concept of Poem in 1972. He graduated in Romance Philology...

18. Álvaro de Campos (1890)

Portuguese Writer

Álvaro de Campos was one of the poet Fernando Pessoa's various heteronyms widely known by his powerful and wrathful writing style. According to his author this alter ego was...

19. Alberto de Lacerda (1928)

Portuguese Writer

Alberto Correia de Lacerda was a Portuguese poet and BBC Radio Presenter.

20. Violante do Ceo (1607)

Portuguese Writer

Sor Violante do Céu or do Ceo was a celebrated female poet from the Iberian peninsula. While the year of her birth is under much debate Violante do Céu was...

21. Jerónimo Corte-Real (Unknow)

Portuguese Writer

Jerónimo Corte-Real was a Portuguese epic poet who came of a noble Portuguese stock. He is sometimes regarded as the Portuguese Virgil. He was born in the Azores from the...

22. Alberto Monsaraz (1889)

Portuguese Writer

Alberto de Morés Monsaraz was a Portuguese politician and poet. He was one of the central figures in the Integralismo Lusitano that dominated the far right of Portuguese politics during...

23. Francisco Rodrigues Lobo (1580)

Portuguese Writer

sco Rodrigues Lobo was a Portuguese poet and bucolic writer. He was born of rich and noble New Christian parents in Leiria reading philosophy poetry and writing of shepherds and...

24. Alberto Estima de Oliveira (1934)

Portuguese Writer

Alberto Estima de Oliveira was a Portuguese poet. He was born in Lisbon moved to Benguela Angola in 1957 and later to Guinea Bissau. He lived in Macao from 1982...

25. Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida (1740)

Portuguese Writer

Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida from Lisbon was the foremost Portuguese satirical poet of the 18th century. Beginning at age 20 Tolentino studied law for three years at the University of...

26. Francisco Gomes de Amorim (1827)

Portuguese Writer

sco Gomes de Amorim was a Portuguese poet and Dramatist. He was a friend of Almeida Garrett.

27. José Luís Peixoto (1974)

Portuguese Writer

José Luís Peixoto is a Portuguese writer who has written fiction poetry drama lyrics and has participated in a wide number of projects involving writing.

28. David Mourão-Ferreira (1927)

Portuguese Writer

David de Jesus Mourão-Ferreira GCSE was a Portuguese writer and poet from Lisbon. He was a son of David Ferreira and wife Teresa de Jesus Ferro Mourão.

29. José dos Santos Ferreira (1919)

Portuguese Writer

José dos Santos Ferreira better known as Adé was born in Portuguese Macau on 28 July 1919 and died in Hong Kong on 24 March 1993. Born to a father...

30. Alexandre O'Neill (1924)

Portuguese Writer

Alexandre Manuel Vahia de Castro O'Neill de Bulhões GOSE was a Portuguese writer and poet of Irish descent.

31. Al Berto (1948)

Portuguese Writer

Al Berto was the pseudonym used by the Portuguese poet Alberto Raposo Pidwell Tavares.

32. Regina Guimarães (1957)

Portuguese Writer

Regina Guimarães also known as Corbe is a Portuguese poet playwright stage director and lyricist. She lives and works with her partner Sergei Saguenail Abramovici a. k. a. Saguenail since...

33. Bernardo Santareno (1924)

Portuguese Writer

Bernardo Santareno is pseudonym of António Martinho do Rosário a Portuguese writer. He was born in Santarém and died in Lisboa.

34. Vergílio Ferreira (1916)

Portuguese Writer

Virgílio Ferreira JOSE was a Portuguese writer.

35. Carlos de Oliveira (1921)

Portuguese Writer

Carlos de Oliveira GOSE was a Portuguese poet and novelist.

36. Guilherme de Melo (1931)

Portuguese Writer

Guilherme de Melo is a Portuguese journalist novelist and activist. Melo lived through the protracted war of independence in the Portuguese colony in the 1960s and 1970s.

37. Valter hugo mãe (1971)

Portuguese Writer

valter hugo mãe is the artistic name of the Portuguese writer Valter Hugo Lemos. He is also an editor singer plastic artist. valter hugo mãe received the José Saramago Prize...

38. Maria Teresa Horta (1937)

Portuguese Writer

Maria Teresa Mascarenhas Horta is a Portuguese writer. She is bachelor in the Universidade de Lisboa and she has worked as a journalist.

39. António Diniz da Cruz e Silva (Unknow)

Portuguese Writer

António Diniz da Cruz e Silva Portuguese heroic-comic poet was the son of a Lisbon carpenter who emigrated to the Portuguese colony of Brazil shortly before the poet's birth leaving...

40. António Gedeão (1906)

Portuguese Writer

António Gedeão was a Portuguese poet essayist writer and playwright who also published several works related to science. António Gedeão was an alter ego of Rómulo de Carvalho who using...

41. Pedro Correia Garção (1724)

Portuguese Writer

Pedro António Joaquim Correia da Serra Garção – 10 November 1772) was a Portuguese lyric poet.

42. Ruy Belo (1933)

Portuguese Writer

Ruy de Moura Belo was a Portuguese poet and essayist. He is considered one of the most famous existentialists of the twentieth century in Portuguese-speaking countries. Ruy Belo also worked...

43. Laxmanrao Sardessai (Unknow)

Portuguese Writer

Laxmanrao Sardessai was a Goan poet and short-story writer. Considered one of the territory's finest writers in the Marathi language he also wrote prose and verse in Konkani and Portuguese....

44. Maria O'Neill (1873)

Portuguese Writer

Maria da Conceição Infante de Lacerda Pereira de Eça Custance O'Neill was a Portuguese writer poet journalist and spiritualist of Irish descent.

45. António Botto (1897)

Portuguese Writer

António Botto was a Portuguese aesthete and modernist poet.

46. Gonçalo M. Tavares (1970)

Portuguese Writer

Gonçalo Manuel Tavares a Portuguese writer born in August 1970 in Luanda Angola. He published his first work in 2001 and since then has been awarded several important prizes. His...

47. Eugénio de Castro (1869)

Portuguese Writer

state of Rio Grande do Sul Brazil see Eugênio de CastroEugénio de Castro e Almeida was a Portuguese writer and a poet.

48. Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923)

Portuguese Writer

Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos also known as Mário Cesariny is among the most important Portuguese surrealist poets having published several major works during a career spanning 50 years. Cesariny was...

49. Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765)

Portuguese Writer

Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage was a Portuguese Neoclassic poet writing under the pen name Elmano Sadino.

50. Basílio Teles (Unknow)

Portuguese Writer

Basílio Teles was a Portuguese author.