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    1945 Cláudio de Sousa 1946 João Neves da Fontoura 1947 Adelmar Tavares 1948 Miguel Osório de Almeida 1949 Gustavo Barroso 1950-1950 Aloisio de Castro 1951...
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  • Fernando Verissimo 1992 - Paulo Fontoura Gastal 1993 - Carlos Reverbel 1994 - Nelson Boeck, Edgardo Xavier, Mário de Almeida Lima e Sétimo Luizelli 1995 -...
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    Government measures), where he was encouraged as a writer by Manuel Antônio de Almeida, the newspaper's director and also a novelist. There he also met Francisco...
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    Manuel Antônio de Almeida (November 17, 1831 – November 28, 1861) was a Brazilian satirical writer, medician and teacher. He is famous for the book Memoirs...
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    Carlos Chagas Filho (category Federal University of Rio de Janeiro alumni)
    Oswaldo Cruz. (In Portuguese) Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho website. Darcy Fontoura de Almeida, «Carlos Chagas Filho», Biographical Memoirs...
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    Paulo Coelho (category Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    Paulo Coelho de Souza (/ˈkwɛl.juː, kuˈɛl.juː, -joʊ/ KWEL-yoo, koo-EL-yoo, -⁠yoh, Portuguese: [ˈpawlu koˈeʎu]; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist...
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    José Martiniano de Alencar (May 1, 1829 – December 12, 1877) was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist. He is considered to be...
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    Heloísa Teixeira, formerly known as Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda (born 26 July 1939) is a Brazilian writer, essayist, editor and literary critic. Her research...
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    Francisco Filinto de Almeida (December 4, 1857 – January 28, 1945) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian dramatist, journalist, and poet. Almeida was born in Porto...
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    de Almeida (January 10, 1887, in Areia – March 10, 1980, in João Pessoa) was a Brazilian writer, a politician, a lawyer and a teacher. Reflexões de um...
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    Marco Lucchesi (category Academic staff of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
    de Letras since 2011. He is also full professor of Languages at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Marco Lucchesi was born in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro...
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    Olavo Bilac (category Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    a Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator. Alongside Alberto de Oliveira and Raimundo Correia, he was a member of the "Parnassian Triad"....
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    Francisco de Aquino Correia (April 2, 1885 – March 22, 1956) was a Brazilian Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was the tenth archbishop of Cuiabá...
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  • Darcy Ribeiro (October 26, 1922 – February 17, 1997) was a Brazilian anthropologist, historian, sociologist, author and politician. His ideas have influenced...
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    Gregório de Matos e Guerra (December 23, 1636 – November 26, 1696) was a famous Portuguese Baroque poet from Colonial Brazil. Although he wrote many lyrical...
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    of Letters. Adelino Fontoura was born in the city of Axixá, in Maranhão, to Antônio Fontoura Chaves and Francisca Dias Fontoura. Since as a child, he...
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    Guilherme de Andrade e Almeida (born in Campinas, July 24, 1890 and died in Sao Paulo, July 11, 1969) was a lawyer, journalist, film critic, poet, essayist...
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  • Charlotte Williamson Rodrigo Simas as Ernesto Pricelli Ary Fontoura as Afrânio Cavalcante, Barão de Ouro Verde Murilo Rosa as Jorge Marcelo Faria as Aurélio...
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    Mariano de Oliveira (April 28, 1857 – January 19, 1937) was a Brazilian poet, pharmacist and professor. He is better known by his pen name Alberto de Oliveira...
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    Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo (pronounced [fɾɐ̃ˈsisku dʒi aˈsis ʃɐtobɾiˈɐ̃ bɐ̃ˈdejɾɐ dʒi ˈmɛlu]), also nicknamed Chatô (October 4,...
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    August. On 8 April, the newspapers announced the dismissal of Carneiro de Fontoura as police chief of the Federal District. The reason was his dismissal...
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    Ruy Barbosa de Oliveira (5 November 1849 – 1 March 1923), also known as Rui Barbosa, was a Brazilian politician, writer, jurist, and diplomat. He was a...
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    Celso Vieira de Matos Melo Pereira (1878–1954) was a Brazilian writer, biographer and historian. He was born in the city of Recife, PE, on January 12,...
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    by Manuel Antônio de Almeida, who also happened to be one of Azevedo's cousins. Another one of Azevedo's cousins, Maria Catarina de Abreu Sodré, eventually...
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    Mercantil. While working for the latter, he met Manuel Antônio de Almeida and Machado de Assis. In 1859, he published his most famous work, the poetry...
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    Getúlio Vargas (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    supported writer and minor politician from the Northeast Jose Americo de Almeida, the paulistas were now confident as they sought and received support...
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  • succeeding Mário de Alencar and received by Academician Gustavo Barroso on April 20, 1927. He in turn received Academician Guilherme de Almeida. "Olegário Mariano"...
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  • Abgar de Castro Araújo Renault (1901–1995) was a Brazilian professor, educator, politician, poet, essayist and translator. He was born in Barbacena in...
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    Aliança dos Povos da Floresta (Alliance of Forest-dwelling Peoples), the Núcleo de Cultura Indígena (Nucleus of Indigenous Culture), among others. In 2000, he...
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  • returned to Brazil and took an artillery course at the Military School in Rio de Janeiro. He took part in the Canudos campaign, where his efforts were crowned...
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