This is a list of Portuguese

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

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* Mario de Carvalho (born 1944) * Camilo Castelo Branco (1825–1890) *

Luísa Costa Gomes Luísa Costa Gomes (born in Lisbon, June 16, 1954) is a Portuguese chronicler, librettist, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Biography Luísa has a degree in philosophy from Universidade de Lisboa and was a high school teacher. Her first pub ...

Afonso Cruz Afonso Cruz (1971), born in Figueira da Foz, is a portuguese multidisciplinary artist, author of more than 30 books, among novels, theatre plays, picture books, juvenile novellas, poetry, photo-text and essays. His books are published in more than ...

(born 1971)

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* Júlio Dinis (1839–1871) * José Riço Direitinho (born 1965)

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Rosa Lobato de Faria Rosa Lobato de Faria (, Rosa Maria de Bettencourt Rodrigues Lobato de Faria; 20 April 1932, Lisbon, Portugal – 2 February 2010, Lisbon) was a Portuguese actress and writer whose career encompassed a variety of media including acting, scriptwrit ...

(1932–2010) *

Vergílio Ferreira Vergílio António Ferreira, JOSE (Melo, Gouveia, 28 January 1916 – Lisbon, 1 March 1996) was a Portuguese writer, essayist, professor and a key figure in Portuguese-language literature. His prolific literary output, comprising works of f ...

(1916–1996) *

Raquel Freire Raquel Freire (born 22 June 1973, in Porto) is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter and novelist. In 2014 she released the film ''Transiberic Love'' which is a love story set in modern times showing how one can be an activist within globalise ...

(born 1973)

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* Almeida Garrett (1799–1854) * Olga Gonçalves (1929–2004) * Pedro Guilherme-Moreira (born 1969)

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* Alexandre Herculano (1810–1877) *

Maria Teresa Horta Maria Teresa de Mascarenhas Horta Barros (born 20 May 1937, Lisbon) is a Portuguese feminist poet, journalist and activist. She is one of the authors of the book '' Novas Cartas Portugesas'' (''New Portuguese Letters''), together with Maria Isabe ...

(born 1937)

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António Lobo Antunes António Lobo Antunes, GCSE (; born 1 September 1942) is a Portuguese novelist and retired medical doctor. He has been named as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He has been awarded the 2000 Austrian State Prize, the 2003 Ovid ...

(born 1942)

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valter hugo mãe Valter is a spelling variant of the German name ''Walter'', ''Walther'', from Old High German ''walt'' "rule" and ''her'' "army". The spelling variant in ''V-'' is adopted in a number of European languages, including Scandinavian (North Germanic) ...

(born 1971) *

Dulce Maria Cardoso Dulce Maria Cardoso (born 1964) is a Portuguese writer. She was born in , Carrazeda de Ansiães, Trás-os-Montes but moved to Luanda, Angola as an infant. Her family came back to Portugal in 1975 along with half a million other '' retornados'' as ...

(born 1964) * Guilherme de Melo (1931–2013) *

Luís de Sttau Monteiro Luís Infante de la Cerda Sttau Monteiro (April 3, 1926 – July 23, 1993) was a Portuguese writer, novelist and playwright, a man to whom "the only sacred thing was to be free as the wind". Life Monteiro was born and died in Lisbon, Portugal. Wh ...

(1926–1993)

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* Fernando Goncalves Namora (1919–1989) * Vitorino Nemésio (1901–1978) * António de Vasconcelos Nogueira (born 1961)

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* Raquel Ochoa (born 1980) * Carlos de Oliveira (1921–1981)

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José Luís Peixoto José Luís Marques Peixoto (; born September 4, 1974) is a Portuguese author, poet and playwright. A professional writer since 2001, his works have been translated into more than 30 languages. Biography José Luis Peixoto was born in the villa ...

(born 1974) *

Ana Teresa Pereira Ana Teresa Pereira (born 1958) is a Portuguese novelist. She was born in Funchal. She published her debut novel A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on t ...

(born 1958) *

Ana Plácido Ana Plácido (1831—1895) was a Portuguese novelist and author. Her best known work is the 1871 novel ''Herança de Lágrimas'' (English: ''A Legacy of Tears''), and she is also noted for an autobiographical book ''Luz Coada por Ferros'' (Engli ...

(1831–1895)

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José Maria de Eça de Queirós José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced ...

(1845–1900) *

Francisco Teixeira de Queiroz Francisco Teixeira de Queiroz (May 3, 1848 - July 22, 1919), who used the pen name of Bento Moreno, was a Portuguese writer. Biography Francisco Teixeira de Queiroz was born in 1848 to José Maria Teixeira de Queiroz and Antónia Joaquina Pereir ...

(1848–1919)

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Wanda Ramos Wanda Ramos (1948–1998) was a Portuguese author and poet. Ramos was born in Dundo, Angola and moved to Portugal around 1958. In addition to her novels and collections of poems, Ramos also worked as a translator, translating works by Jorge Lu ...

(1948–1998) *

Aquilino Ribeiro Aquilino Gomes Ribeiro, ComL (; 13 September 1885 – 27 May 1963, Lisbon), was a Portuguese writer and diplomat. He is generally considered to be one of the great Portuguese novelists of the 20th century. In 1960, he was nominated for the Nob ...

(1885–1963)

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* Rui Miguel Saramago (born 1969) *

José Saramago José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE ComSE GColCa (; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony ith which heco ...

(1922–2010)

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Gonçalo M. Tavares Gonçalo Manuel de Albuquerque Tavares, known professionally as Gonçalo M. Tavares, was born in August, 1970 in Luanda, Angola and is a Portuguese writer and professor of Theory of Science in Lisbon. He published his first work in 2001 and sinc ...

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Miguel Sousa Tavares Miguel Andresen de Sousa Tavares (born Porto, 25 June 1952) 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 his education in Law ...

(born 1952)

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Richard Zimler Richard Zimler (born 1 January 1956 in Roslyn Heights, New York) is a best-selling author. His books, which have earned him a 1994 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and the 1998 Herodotus Award, have been published in many cou ...

(born 1956)

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