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Adélia Prado
Adélia Prado, full name Adélia Luzia Prado de Freitas, is a Brazilian poet born in 1935 in Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, whose debut Bagagem appeared in 1976.
Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna, born in 1937, is a Brazilian poet, critic, and chronicler, author of more than sixty books and member of the Generation of 60.
Alberto de Oliveira
Alberto de Oliveira (Antônio Mariano Alberto de Oliveira, 1857–1937) was a Brazilian pharmacist, professor, and Parnassian poet, a founding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras in 1897.
Alberto Hidalgo
Alberto Hidalgo (Alberto Hidalgo Lobato, 1897–1967) was a Peruvian avant-garde poet and narrator who founded simplismo, compiled a landmark 1926 anthology of Latin American avant-garde poetry, and lived almost his whole adult life in Argentina.
Alejandra Pizarnik
Alejandra Pizarnik (1936–1972) was an Argentine poet known for short, intense lyric poems on solitude, childhood, and death, and for her suicide at age 36.
Alfonsina Storni
Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938) was an Argentine poet and journalist, born in Switzerland, whose defiant, feminist verse made her a pioneer of female eroticism in Spanish-language poetry alongside Gabriela Mistral.
Alfredo Espino
Alfredo Espino, in full Edgardo Alfredo Espino Najarro, was a Salvadoran lyric poet (1900–1928) whose single posthumous book, Jícaras tristes, became required reading in Salvadoran schools.
Alicia Ghiragossian
Alicia Ghiragossian (Armenian: Կիրակոսյան), born Alisia Kirakosyan, was an Argentinian-Armenian poet and translator who wrote in Spanish, Armenian, and English and died in Los Angeles in 2014.
Alphonsus de Guimaraens
Alphonsus de Guimaraens, pen name of Afonso Henriques da Costa Guimaraens (1870–1921), was a Brazilian Symbolist poet and judge who made the death of his fiancée his muse.
Álvares de Azevedo
Álvares de Azevedo, full name Manuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo (1831–1852), was a Brazilian poet and dramatist of the ultraromantic generation, best known for Lira dos vinte anos.
Álvaro Mutis
Álvaro Mutis was a Colombian poet and novelist who lived in Mexico City and won the 2001 Cervantes Prize for his work centered on the sailor Maqroll el Gaviero.
Amadeu Amaral
Amadeu Amaral, born 1875 in Capivari, São Paulo, was a Brazilian poet, folklorist, and philologist who wrote O Dialeto Caipira, the first scientific study of a Brazilian regional dialect.
Ana Cristina Cesar
Ana Cristina Cesar, who signed her work Ana C., was a Brazilian poet and leading figure of the 1970s mimeograph generation, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1952.
Andrés Eloy Blanco
Andrés Eloy Blanco was a Venezuelan poet and politician, born in 1896, best known for the poem "Píntame angelitos negros" and for dying in exile in Mexico in 1955.
Andrés Holguín
Andrés Holguín, born Andrés Holguín Holguín (1918–1989), was a Colombian poet, translator, critic, and diplomat from Bogotá whose anthologies of Colombian and French poetry became reference works.
Antônio Cícero
Antônio Cícero (Antonio Cicero Correia Lima) was a Brazilian poet, philosopher, and songwriter who wrote for Marina Lima and joined the Academia Brasileira de Letras in 2017.
Antonio Cisneros
Antonio Cisneros, in full Antonio Alfonso Cisneros Campoy (1942–2012), was a Peruvian poet of the Generación del 60 whose Comentarios reales (1964) won the National Poetry Prize.
Antônio Risério
Antônio Risério, born 1953 in Salvador, Bahia, is a Brazilian poet, essayist, anthropologist, and historian who began in the Tropicália movement and writes on Afro-Brazilian culture.
Arturo Camacho Ramírez
Arturo Camacho Ramírez (1910–1982) was a Colombian poet, journalist, and diplomat, a member of the Piedra y Cielo group who led its Americanist, Neruda-influenced tendency.
Augusto de Campos
Augusto de Campos, born in São Paulo in 1931, is a Brazilian poet who founded the concrete poetry movement in the 1950s with Haroldo de Campos and Décio Pignatari.
Augusto dos Anjos
Augusto dos Anjos (1884–1914) was a Brazilian poet from Paraíba whose only book, Eu (1912), made him one of Brazil's most read poets despite his early death at 30.
Augusto Frederico Schmidt
Augusto Frederico Schmidt (1906–1965) was a Brazilian poet, editor, and journalist of the second modernist generation, whose debut Canto do brasileiro (1928) is considered its inaugural work.
Augusto Meyer
Augusto Meyer (1902–1970) was a Brazilian poet, essayist, and critic from Rio Grande do Sul, a leading figure of Gaúcho modernism alongside Raul Bopp and Mário Quintana.
Aurelio Espinosa Pólit
Aurelio Espinosa Pólit (1894–1961) was an Ecuadorian Jesuit priest, poet, essayist, and translator of the classics who co-founded and led the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador.
Blanca Varela
Blanca Varela (1926–2009) was a Peruvian poet of the Generación del 50, whose first book Ese puerto existe appeared in 1959 and whose prizes included the Octavio Paz award.
Bruno Tolentino
Bruno Tolentino was the pseudonym of Bruno Lúcio de Carvalho Tolentino, a Brazilian poet and translator (1940–2007) who spent nearly 30 years in Europe, taught at Oxford, and won the Jabuti Prize twice.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902–1987) was a Brazilian poet from Itabira, Minas Gerais, considered Brazil's greatest, known for Alguma Poesia and the poetics of the gauche.
Carlos Nejar
Carlos Nejar, born in 1939 in Porto Alegre, is a Brazilian poet and novelist who has published more than 70 books and chairs no. 4 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Cassiano Ricardo
Cassiano Ricardo, full name Cassiano Ricardo Leite (1895–1974), was a Brazilian poet and journalist, a leader of the 1922 Semana de Arte Moderna and author of the epic Martim Cererê.
Castro Alves
Castro Alves (Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves, 1847–1871) was a Brazilian Romantic poet whose abolitionist verse, including "O navio negreiro", earned him the epithet Poet of the Slaves.