The following is a list of famous or notable
Portuguese language
Portuguese ( or ) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomà ...
poets
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...
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Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...
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Agostinho Neto
António Agostinho Neto (17 September 1922 – 10 September 1979) was an Angolan Communism, communist politician and poet. He served as the first president of Angola from 1975 to 1979, having led the MPLA, Popular Movement for the Liberation of ...
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Alda Lara
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António Jacinto
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Ondjaki
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Pepetela
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Viriato da Cruz
Viriato Clemente da Cruz (25 March 1928 – 13 June 1973) was an Angolan poet and politician, who was born in Kikuvo, Porto Amboim, Portuguese Angola, and died in Beijing, People's Republic of China. He is considered one of the most important An ...
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Tomaz Vieira da Cruz
Tomaz Vieira da Cruz (22 April 1900 – 7 June 1960) was a poet from Portugal. He was also a musician and journalist. His most well known poems are dedicated to his "bronze flower", a woman he loved. His poetry had an Angolan flavor. His "day ...
Brazil
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Adalgisa Nery
Adalgisa Nery (October 29, 1905 – June 7, 1980) was a Brazilian poet, journalist and politician.
Biography
She was born in Rio de Janeiro as Adalgisa Maria Feliciana Noel Cancela Ferreira, the daughter of a civil servant. In 1922 she marr ...
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Adélia Prado
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Alberto de Oliveira
Antônio Mariano Alberto 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.
Alongside Olavo Bilac and Raimundo Correia, he comprised the B ...
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Alice Sant'Anna
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Alphonsus de Guimaraens
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Alvarenga Peixoto
Inácio José de Alvarenga Peixoto (1744–1793) was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet and lawyer. He wrote under the pen name Eureste FenÃcio.
The design of the flag of Minas Gerais is attributed to him.
Biography
Peixoto was born in Rio d ...
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Ãlvares de Azevedo
Manuel Antônio Ãlvares de Azevedo (September 12, 1831 – April 25, 1852), affectionately called "Maneco" by his close friends, relatives and admirers, was a Brazilian Romantic poet, short story writer, playwright and essayist, considered to b ...
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Ana Cristina César
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Ana Cristina César (June 2, 1952 – October 29, 1983) was a Brazilian poet, literary critic and translator from Rio de Janeiro. She came from a middle-class Protestant background and was usually known as "Ana C." She had written since ...
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Ana Estaregui
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Ana Martins Marques
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Angélica Freitas
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Antônio Gonçalves Dias
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António Vieira
António (or Antônio) Vieira (; 6 February 160818 July 1697) was a Portuguese Jesuit Priesthood in the Catholic Church, priest, diplomat, orator, preacher, philosopher, writer, and member of the Royal Council to the King of Portugal.
Biogr ...
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Arnaldo Antunes
Arnaldo Antunes (, born Arnaldo Augusto Nora Antunes Filho, September 2, 1960) is a Brazilian singer, writer, and composer. He was a member of the rock band Titãs, which he co-founded in 1982 and left ten years later. After 1992, he embarked on ...
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Augusto de Lima
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Augusto dos Anjos
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Bernardo Guimarães
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Bruna Beber
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Carlos Drummond de Andrade
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Casimiro de Abreu
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Castro Alves
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Cazuza
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CecÃlia Meireles
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Cláudio Manuel da Costa
Cláudio Manuel da Costa (June 4, 1729 – July 4, 1789) was a Brazilian poet and musician, considered to be the introducer of Neoclassicism in Brazil. He wrote under the pen name Glauceste Satúrnio, and his most famous work is the epic poetry, ep ...
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Clarice Lispector
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Cora Coralina
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Cruz e Souza
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Cyro dos Anjos
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Dante Milano
Dante Milano (June 16, 1899 – April 15, 1991) was a Brazilian poet associated with modernism.
Life and works
He was born in Rio de Janeiro to Italian immigrants. He had his first poem published in 1920 when he was working as an accountant. ...
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Fabiano Calixto
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FabrÃcio Carpi Nejar
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FabrÃcio Corsaletti
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Ferreira Gullar
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Gilberto Mendonça Teles
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Gregório "Boca do Inferno" de Matos Guerra
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Gonçalves Dias
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Haroldo de Campos
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Henriqueta Lisboa
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Hilda Hilst
Hilda de Almeida Prado Hilst (21 April 1930 – 4 February 2004) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright. Her work touches on the themes of mysticism, insanity, the body, eroticism, and Sexual revolution, female sexual liberation. Hilst ...
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Hilda Machado
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Ismar Tirelli Neto
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João Cabral de Melo Neto
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João da Cruz e Sousa
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (), often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis, ''Machado,'' or ''Bruxo do Cosme Velho''Vainfas, p. 505. (21 June 1839 – 29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian people, Brazilian novelist, poet, playwr ...
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José de Alencar
José Martiniano de Alencar (May 1, 1829 – December 12, 1877) was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist. He is considered to be one of the most famous and influential Brazilian Romantic novelists of the 19th century, ...
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Jorge de Lima
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José de Mesquita
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José de Santa Rita Durão
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Julia de Souza
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Junqueira Freire
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Laura Liuzzi
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Ledusha Spinardi
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Leonardo Gandolfi
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Mário de Andrade
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Manuel Bandeira
Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho (April 19, 1886 – October 13, 1968) was a Brazilian poet, literary critic, and translator, who wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose.
Life and career
Bandeira was born in Recife, Pernambuco. In 1904 ...
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Manuel de Abreu
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MarÃlia Garcia
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Mário de Andrade
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Menotti del Picchia
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Murilo Mendes
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Olavo Bilac
Olavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac (16 December 1865 – 28 December 1918), known simply as Olavo Bilac (), was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator. Alongside Alberto de Oliveira and Raimundo Correia, he was a member ...
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Oswald de Andrade
José Oswald de Souza Andrade (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic. He was born in, spent most of his life in, and died in São Paulo.
Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism ...
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Paulo Leminski
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Pedro Kilkerry
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Raimundo Correia
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Ricardo Domeneck
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Rodrigo Lobo Damasceno
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Santa Rita Durão
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Tarso de Melo
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Tomás Antônio Gonzaga Tomás may refer to:
* Tomás (given name) Tomás is a Spanish language, Spanish, Portuguese language, Portuguese, and Irish language, Irish (also in the archaic forms ''Thomaz'', ''Thomás'' and ''Tomaz (disambiguation), Tomaz'') given name equiva ...
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Victor Heringer
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Vinicius de Moraes
Marcus VinÃcius da Cruz e Mello Moraes (19 October 1913 – 9 July 1980), better known as VinÃcius de Moraes () and nicknamed "O Poetinha" ("The Little Poet"), was a Brazilian poet, diplomat, lyricist, essayist, musician, singer, and playwrig ...
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...
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Aguinaldo Fonseca
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Arménio Vieira
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Jorge Barbosa
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Osvaldo Alcântara
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OvÃdio Martins
OvÃdio de Sousa Martins (September 17, 1928 in Mindelo, São Vicente – April 29, 1999 in Lisbon, Portugal) was a famous Cape Verdean poet and journalist. He attended high school in his home country, went to pursue studies in PortugalLobba ...
East Timor
Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the coastal exclave of Oecusse in the island's northwest, and ...
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Fernando Sylvan
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Francisco Borja da Costa
Galicia (
Spain
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Eduardo Blanco Amor
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Xohán de Cangas
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Luisa Castro
Luisa Castro (born 1966, in Foz, Lugo) is a Spanish writer and journalist who has published in Galician and Spanish. She has lived in Barcelona, New York City, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Naples and Bordeaux. She is currently Director of th ...
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RosalÃa de Castro
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MartÃn Codax
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Ãlvaro Cunqueiro
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Manuel Curros EnrÃquez
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Celso Emilio Ferreiro
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Airas Nunes
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Eduardo Pondal
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Eladio RodrÃguez
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Claudio RodrÃguez Fer
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Ramón Sampedro
Goa
Goa (; ; ) is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is bound by the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north, and Karnataka to the ...
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India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...
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Adeodato Barreto
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Laxmanrao Sardessai
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Vimala Devi
Teresa da Piedade de Baptista Almeida (born ), known by her pen name Vimala Devi, is a Portuguese writer, poet, and translator. Born into an elite Goan caste of Roman Catholic Brahmins in Portuguese Goa, she settled in Lisbon, Portugal in 195 ...
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R. V. Pandit
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 2,026,778. It borders Senegal to Guinea-Bissau–Senegal border, its north and Guinea to Guinea–Guinea-Bissau b ...
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Abdulai Silá
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Vasco Cabral
Macau
Macau or Macao is a special administrative regions of China, special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). With a population of about people and a land area of , it is the most List of countries and dependencies by p ...
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
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José dos Santos Ferreira (Adé)
Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Afr ...
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Armando Guebuza
Armando EmÃlio Guebuza (born 20 January 1943) is a Mozambique, Mozambican politician who was the third President of Mozambique from 2005 to 2015.
Career
Guebuza, born at Murrupula in Nampula Province, joined the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRE ...
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Eduardo Mondlane
Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane (20 June 1920 – 3 February 1969) was a Mozambican revolutionary and anthropologist who was the founder of the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO). He served as the FRELIMO's first leader until his assassinat ...
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Eduardo White
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José Craveirinha
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LuÃs Bernardo Honwana
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Marcelino dos Santos
Marcelino dos Santos (20 May 1929 – 11 February 2020) was a Mozambique, Mozambican poet, revolutionary, and politician. As a young man he travelled to Portugal, and France for an education. He was a founding member of the FRELIMO, ''Frente de ...
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Mia Couto
António EmÃlio Leite Couto, better known as Mia Couto (born 5 July 1955), is a Mozambican writer. He won the Camões Prize in 2013, the most important literary award in the Portuguese language, and the Neustadt International Prize for Litera ...
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Noémia de Sousa
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Sebastião Alba
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Teodomiro Leite de Vasconcelos
Teodomiro Alberto Azevedo Leite de Vasconcelos (Arcos de Valdevez, Portugal, 4 August 1944 – Johannesburg, South Africa, 29 January 1997) was a Mozambican journalist and writer. He was a member of Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos.
In ...
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Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...
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Al Berto
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Alberto de Lacerda
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Alexandre O'Neill
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Almada Negreiros
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Almeida Garrett
João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, 1st Viscount of Almeida Garrett (; 4 February 1799 – 9 December 1854) was a Portuguese poet, orator, playwright, novelist, journalist, politician, and a peer of the realm. A major promoter ...
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Antero de Quental
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António Diniz da Cruz e Silva
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António Duarte Gomes Leal
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António Ferreira (poet)
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António Gedeão
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António Nobre
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António Reis
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Ary dos Santos
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Augusto Gil
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Bernardim Ribeiro
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Caetano da Costa Alegre
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Camilo Pessanha
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Carlos de Oliveira
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Cesário Verde
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Christovão Falcão
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David Mourão-Ferreira
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King Denis of Portugal
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Eugénio de Andrade
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Fernando Pessoa
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Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão
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Florbela Espanca
Florbela Espanca (; born , ) was a Portuguese poet. She is known for her passionate and feminist poetry. Fernando Pessoa later said she was his "twin soul".
Early life
Born Flor Bela d'Alma da Conceição on 8 December 1894 in Vila Viçosa, P ...
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Francisco Manoel de Nascimento, aka Filinto Elysio
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Francisco Rodrigues Lobo
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Francisco de Sá de Miranda (1481–1558)
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Garcia de Resende
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Gil Vicente
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Guerra Junqueiro
AbÃlio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro (, 17 September 1850 – 7 July 1923) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese top civil servant, member of the Portuguese House of Representatives, journalist, author, and poet. His work helped inspire the creation of ...
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Hélia Correia
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Herberto Helder
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Ibn Bassam
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Jerónimo Corte-Real
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João de Deus
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João-Maria Nabais
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Jorge de Sena
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José Agostinho de Macedo
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José António Camões
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José Carlos Ary dos Santos
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José dos Santos Ferreira
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José Gomes Ferreira
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José Régio
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José Saramago
José de Sousa Saramago (; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony ith which ...
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