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List of notable or famous poets from Brazil, with bios and photos. These poets are the best and most popular in all of Brazil. So, 

Who are the most famous poets from Brazil?

  1. Vinicius de Moraes
  2. Olavo Bilac
  3. Cecília Meireles
  4. Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  5. Mario Quintana
  6. Augusto dos Anjos
  7. Manuel Bandeira
  8. Cora Coralina
  9. Ferreira Gullar
  10. Adélia Prado
  11. Oswald de Andrade
  12. João Cabral de Melo Neto
  13. Hilda Hilst
  14. Paulo Leminski
  15. Ana Cristina Cesar

Vinicius de Moraes photo
1. Vinicius de Moraes

Marcus Vinicius da Cruz e Mello Moraes (October 19, 1913 – July 9, 1980), also known as Vinícius de Moraes and nicknamed O Poetinha (the little poet), was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As a poet, he wrote lyrics for a great number of songs that became all-time classics. He was also a composer of bossa nova, a playwright, a diplomat and, as an interpreter of his own songs, he left several important albums.

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olavo bilac photo
2. Olavo Bilac

Olavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac (December 16, 1865 – December 28, 1918) was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator, one ofthe most popular of all Brazilian poets. He was a member of the "Parnassian Triad". Elected the "Prince of Brazilian Poets" in 1907 by the magazine Fon-Fon, he is famous for writing the lyrics of the Brazilian Flag Anthem.

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Cecília Meireles Photo
3. Cecília Meireles

Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles (Rio de Janeiro, 1901–1964) was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the Portuguese language, and is widely considered the best female poet from Brazil. Her style was mostly neo-symbolist and her themes included ephemeral time and the contemplative life.

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade Photo
4. Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Carlos Drummond de Andrade was a Brazilian poet and writer, considered by some as the greatest Brazilian poet of all time. Drummond, as a writer of the modernist style, making use of free verse, and not depending on a fixed meter. In modernism, styles were divided into lyrical and subjective or objective and concrete, Drummond would be part of the latter, similar to Oswald de Andrade.

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Mario Quintana Photo
5. Mário Quintana

Mário de Miranda Quintana (July 30, 1906 – May 5, 1994) was a Brazilian writer and translator. He became known as the poet of "simple things", and his style is marked by irony, profundity and technical perfection. The main themes of his poetry include death, the lost childhood and time. Quintana also worked as a journalist and translated into Portuguese innumerable books.

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Augusto dos Anjos Photo
6. Augusto dos Anjos

Augusto dos Anjos (April 20, 1884 – November 12, 1914) was a Brazilian poet and professor. His poems speak mostly of sickness and death, and are considered the forerunners of Modernism in Brazil. The themes of its poems, that are impregnated with a heavily scatological medical, scientific and philosophical vocabulary. Literary critics are not sure to which literary movement he belong.

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Manuel Bandeira Photo
7. Manuel Bandeira

Manuel Bandeira (April 19, 1886 – October 13, 1968) was a Brazilian poet, literary critic, and translator. Bandeira's poems have a unique delicacy and beauty. Recurrent themes that can be found in his works are: the love of women, his childhood in the Northeast city of Recife, friends, and health problems. He contributed poems of political and social criticism to the Modernist Movement in São Paulo.

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Cora Coralina Photo
8. Cora Coralina

Cora Coralina is considered one of the most important Brazilian writers. She spent her working life as a confectioner in a small bakery, and where she drew upon her experiences of rural Brazilian culture to create her rich poetic prose, often featuring the Brazilian countryside, and in particular focusing upon life of the citizens who lived in the small towns across the state of Goiás.

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Ferreira Gullar Photo
9. Ferreira Gullar

Ferreira Gullar (September 10, 1930 – December 4, 2016) was a Brazilian poet, playwright, art critic, and television writer. He was instrumental in the formation of the Neo-Concrete Movement. Gullar was considered one of the most influential Brazilians of the 20th century by Época magazine. The magazine recalls its critical stance in opinion articles about the populism of former President Lula da Silva.

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Adélia Prado Photo
10. Adélia Prado

Adélia Prado (born 13 December 1935) is a Brazilian writer and poet. Her poetry was "discovered" in 1976, when at the age of 40 she sent a small collection of her poems to poet Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna. Sant'Anna passed her work on to the Brazilian modernist poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Robert Hass said "Brazil has produced what might seem impossible: a really sexy, mystical, Catholic poet."

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Oswald de Andrade Photo
11. Oswald de Andrade

Oswald de Andrade (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian poet and cultural critic. Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism. He participated in the Week of Modern Art. Andrade is particularly important for his Anthropophagist Manifesto. Its argument is that colonized countries, should ingest the culture of the colonizer and digest it in its own way.

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João Cabral de Melo Neto Photo
12. João Cabral de Melo Neto

João Cabral de Melo Neto (January 6, 1920 – October 9, 1999) was a Brazilian poet and diplomat, and one of the most influential writers in late Brazilian modernism. He was awarded the 1990 Camões Prize and the 1992 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the only Brazilian poet to receive such award to date. Melo Neto's works are noted for the rigorous.

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Hilda Hilst Photo
13. Hilda Hilst

Hilda Hilst (April 21, 1930 – February 4, 2004) was a Brazilian poet. She is lauded as one of the most important Portuguese-language authors of the twentieth century. Her work touches on the themes of mysticism, insanity, the body, eroticism, and female sexual liberation. In several of her writings Hilst tackled politically and socially controversial issues, such as obscenity, queer sexuality, and incest.

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Paulo Leminski Photo
14. Paulo Leminski

Paulo Leminski (August 24, 1944 – June 7, 1989) was a Brazilian poet, translator, literary critic, biographer, teacher and judoka. He was noted for his avant-garde work, an experimental novel and poetry inspired in concrete poetry, as well as abundant short lyrics derived from haiku and related forms. Leminski was a polyglot; he knew French, English, Spanish, Japanese, Latin and Greek. 

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Ana Cristina Cesar Photo
15. Ana Cristina Cesar

Ana Cristina César (June 2, 1952 – October 29, 1983) was a poet, literary critic and translator from Rio de Janeiro. She came from a middle-class Protestant background. She had written since childhood and developed a strong interest in English literature. She is considered one of the main names of the mimeograph generation, also known as the marginal poetry of the 1970s.