List of members of the Academia Brasileira de Letras

The list of members of the Academia Brasileira de Letras contains all full members since the establishment of the Literature Academy in Rio de Janeiro in 1897 , sorted according to the 40 seats (cadeiras). Since its inception, the academy has recorded 252 imortais, the “immortals” of Brazilian literature , in addition to the corresponding members, who have their seat until the end of their lives (as of 2018).

Cadeira 1 to 40

Overview of the seats
1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40

Cadeira 1 - " Adelino Fontoura "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1929	Luís Murat (1861–1929)	Journalist, poet lawyer and one of the founding fathers of the academy.
2	1929	1958	Afonso d'Escragnolle Taunay (1876–1958)
3	1958	1975	Ivan Lins (1904–1975)
4th	1975	1997	Bernardo Élis (1915–1997)	Born on November 15, 1915 in Corumbá de Goiás as Bernardo Élis Fleury de Campos Curado, the lawyer, poet, storyteller and novelist received numerous awards, including a. for his volumes of short stories Caminhos e descaminhos and Veranico de janeiro .
5	1998	2002	Evandro Lins e Silva (1912-2002)
6th	2003		Ana Maria Machado (* 1941)	The writer, journalist and painter, who was born in Rio de Janeiro on December 24, 1941, is best known as an author of books for children and young people. She wrote over 100 books that have been published in 17 countries. From 2012 to 2013 she was the second president of the academy.

Cadeira 2 - " Álvares de Azevedo "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1934	Coelho Neto (1864-1934)	One of his most important works by the founder of the ABL is his novel Rei Negro (Black King) , published in 1914 .
2	1936	1963	João Neves da Fontoura (1887–1963)	Diplomat and Politician, published two volumes of memoirs.
3	1963	1967	Guimarães Rosa (1908–1967)	His most famous novel Grande Sertão: Veredas (dt. Grande Sertão ) is seen by some literary critics as the Brazilian counterpart to Ulysses ( James Joyce ) and Berlin Alexanderplatz ( Alfred Döblin ).
4th	1968	1996	Mário Palmério (1916–1996)
5	1997		Tarcísio Padilha (* 1928)	The son of the politician Raimundo Delmiriano Padhila mainly taught history of philosophy at universities in Rio de Janeiro as a university professor.

Cadeira 3 - " Artur de Oliveira "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1945	Filinto de Almeida (1857-1945)
2	1945	1948	Roberto Simonsen (1889–1948)
3	1948	1970	Aníbal Freire da Fonseca (1884–1970)
4th	1971	1999	Herberto Sales (1917–1999)
5	2000	2018	Carlos Heitor Cony (1926-2018)	Of the numerous writings of the writer and journalist, who was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1926, 10 have so far been made into films.

Cadeira 4 - " Basílio da Gama "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1913	Aluísio Azevedo (1857-1913)	With “O Mulato” , Azevedo created the first naturalistic novel in Brazilian literary history in 1881 .
2	1914	1944	Alcides Maia (1978-1944)
3	1945	1988	Viana Moog (1906–1988)
4th	1988		Carlos Nejar (* 1939)	The lawyer, poet and literary critic, born on January 11th in Porto Alegre, has received numerous prizes , especially for his translations of the works of Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda .

Cadeira 5 - " Bernardo Guimarães "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1911	Raimundo Correia (1859-1911)	Poet lawyer. Correia was an important representative of the Brazilian late romanticism and Parnassism . With Alberto de Oliviera and Olavo Bilac he belonged to the so-called "Parnassian Triad". The sonnet "As pombas" is considered to be one of the best and most famous sonnets in the Portuguese language of the 19th century.
2	1912	1917	Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz (1872-1917)
3	1917	1959	Aloísio de Castro (1881–1959)
4th	1960	1977	Cândido Mota Filho (1897–1977)
5	1977	2003	Rachel de Queiroz (1910-2003)	In 1977 Rachel de Queiroz became the first female member of the academy and in 1993 was the first woman to receive the prestigious Prémio Camões .
6th	2004		José Murilo de Carvalho (* 1939)

Cadeira 6 - " Casimiro de Abreu "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1907	Teixeira de Melo (1833–1907)
2	1907	1914	Artur Jaceguai (1843-1914)	Noble Artur Silveira de Mota , Baron de Jacequai , was an admiral and historian and wrote works on naval history and the Triple Alliance War in Paraguay.
3	1915	1936	Goulart de Andrade (1881-1936)
4th	1937	2000	Barbosa Lima Sobrinho (1897-2000)
5	2000	2003	Raimundo Faoro (1925-2003)
6th	2003		Cícero Sandroni (* 1935)	One of the most famous Brazilian journalists, author of narrative and specialist literature, and from 2007 to 2009 the 48th President of the Academy

Cadeira 7 - " Castro Alves "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1903	Valentim Magalhães (1859-1903)
2	1903	1909	Euclides da Cunha (1866–1909)	The best-known work by the Brazilian author, publicist and military engineer is "Os Sertões" and was translated into German in 1994 under the title "War in Sertão" , in which he describes the events surrounding the destruction of the Canudos settlement. Jorge Amado called this work “the least read but most discussed book in Brazil”.
3	1910	1947	Afrânio Peixoto (1876–1947)	Peixoto was fifth president of the academy from 1922 to 1923 and seventh president from 1923 to 1924.
4th	1947	1968	Afonso Pena Júnior (1879–1968)
5	1968	1978	Hermes Lima (1902–1978)
6th	1979	1979	Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda (1892–1979)
7th	1980	1982	Diná Silveira de Queirós (1911–1982)
8th	1983	2005	Sérgio Correia da Costa (1919-2005)
9	2006	2018	Nelson Pereira dos Santos (1928-2018)	Director, screenwriter and producer. His films, belonging to Italian neorealism , paved the way for Cinema Novo .

Cadeira 8 - " Cláudio Manuel da Costa "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1937	Alberto de Oliveira (1857-1937)
2	1937	1951	Oliveira Viana (1883–1951)
3	1951	1993	Austregésilo de Ataíde (1898–1993)
4th	1994	1997	Antônio Calado (1917–1997)
5	1997	2009	Antônio Olinto (1919-2009)
6th	2009		Cleonice Berardinelli (* 1916)	As a university professor, Berardinelli is a specialist in Portuguese literature. Since 1975 she has been a corresponding member of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa , the Portuguese Academy of Sciences in Lisbon, class for literature.

Cadeira 9 - " Gonçalves de Magalhães "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1963	Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo (1872–1963)	Founding father, who held his seat for 66 years, diplomat and poet lawyer.
2	1964	1973	Marques Rebelo (1907–1973)	The modernist in the tradition of Manuel Antônio de Almeida , Machado de Assis and Lima Barreto has been awarded the Prêmio Jabuti twice.
3	1974	2000	Carlos Chagas Filho (1910-2000)	Biophysicist, published essays on science in the modern world.
4th	2000		Alberto da Costa e Silva (* 1931)	A diplomat and poet with a broad spectrum, plus an Africanist, who wrote on the history of slavery and African-Brazilian relations.

Cadeira 10 - " Evaristo da Veiga "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1923	Ruy Barbosa (1849-1923)
2	1923	1937	Laudelino Freire (1873–1937)
3	1938	1981	Osvaldo Orico (1900-1981)	Orico became a member of the academy at the age of 37, and he was also appointed a member of the Academia Paraense de Letras and the Academia Portuguesa da Histórica in Lisbon.
4th	1981	1986	Orígenes Lessa (1903–1986)
5	1986	2012	Lêdo Ivo (1924–2012)	In 2009 Ivo received the Cuban cultural prize Premio Casa de las Américas for his work Requiem .
6th	2013		Rosiska Darcy de Oliveira (* 1944)

Cadeira 11 - " Fagundes Varela "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1909	Lúcio de Mendonça (1854–1909)
2	1910	1921	Pedro Lessa (1859-1921)
3	1922	1923	Eduardo Ramos (1854-1923)
4th	1923	1925	João Luís Alves (1870-1925)
5	1926	1963	Adelmar Tavares (1888–1963)	Tavares became the Academy's 29th President in 1948.
6th	1963	1992	Deolindo Couto (1902-1992)
7th	1992	1997	Darcy Ribeiro (1922-1997)	In Germany, Ribeiro is best known for his ethnological writings, see also the article Civilizational Process according to Darcy Ribeiro .
8th	1997	2004	Celso Furtado (1920-2004)
9	2005	2018	Hélio Jaguaribe (1923-2018)
10	2019		Ignácio de Loyola Brandão	Author of the novels Null (1979, Zero ) and No Country Like This (1986, Não Verás País Nenhum ).

Cadeira 12 - " França Júnior "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1902	Urbano Duarte (1855–1902)
2	1903	1934	Antônio Augusto de Lima (1859–1934)
3	1935	1937	Vítor Viana (1881–1937)	The lawyer, journalist and economic historian was best known for his writings on Brazilian economic history, international law and the national constitutional problems of Brazil.
4th	1937	1968	José Carlos de Macedo Soares (1883–1968)
5	1968	1995	Abgar Renault (1901–1995)
6th	1996	2002	Lucas Moreira Neves (1925-2002)
7th	2003		Alfredo Bosi (* 1936)

Cadeira 13 - " Francisco Otaviano "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1899	Visconde de Taunay (1843–1899)
2	1899	1901	Francisco de Castro (1857-1901)
3	1902	1904	José Isidoro Martins Júnior (1860-1904)
4th	1905	1917	João Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira (1865-1917)
5	1918	1960	Hélio Lobo (1883-1960)
6th	1960	1970	Augusto Meyer (1902–1970)
7th	1970	1991	Francisco de Assis Barbosa (1914–1991)
8th	1992		Sérgio Paulo Rouanet (* 1934)	Rouanet has translated the work of the philosopher Walter Benjamin into Portuguese and received, among other things, the Goethe Medal for it in 2004 . From 1992 to 1996, Rouanet was the Brazilian consul general in Berlin. In 1995, Rouanet founded the Brazilian-German cultural institute “Instituto Cultural Brasileiro na Alemanha” (ICBRA) there.

Cadeira 14 - " Franklin Távora "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1944	Clóvis Beviláqua (1859-1944)	Beviláqua is considered to be one of the fathers of the Brazilian Civil Code (Código civil brasileiro) from 1901.
2	1944	1966	Antônio Carneiro Leão (1887–1966)
3	1967	1974	Fernando de Azevedo (1894–1974)
4th	1975	2006	Miguel Reale (1910-2006)
5	2006		Celso Lafer (* 1941)

Cadeira 15 - " Gonçalves Dias "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1918	Olavo Bilac (1865-1918)
2	1919	1929	Amadeu Amaral (1875-1929)
3	1930	1969	Guilherme de Almeida (1890–1969)
4th	1969	1979	Odilo Costa Filho (1914-1979)
5	1980	1997	Marcos Barbosa (1915–1997)
6th	1997	2010	Fernando Bastos de Ávila (1918-2010)
7th	2011		Marco Lucchesi (* 1963)	Lucchesi has won numerous literary prizes. He received the Prêmio Alceu literary prize for his poetic oeuvre .

Cadeira 16 - " Gregório de Matos "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1911	Araripe Júnior (1848-1911)
2	1912	1935	Félix Pacheco (1879-1935)
3	1936	1985	Pedro Calmon (1902–1985)
4th	1985		Lygia Fagundes Telles (* 1923)	Published in German by the multiple Prêmio Jabuti award winner: Girl at the Blue Window and The Structure of the Soap Bubble .

Cadeira 17 - " Hipólito da Costa "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1914	Sílvio Romero (1851-1914)
2	1915	1927	Osório Duque-Estrada (1870-1927)
3	1927	1954	Edgar Roquette-Pinto (1884–1954)	Writer, ethnologist, anthropologist and doctor. He is considered the "father of Brazilian radio".
4th	1955	1970	Álvaro Lins (1912-1970)
5	1971	1999	Antônio Houaiss (1915–1999)	Culture minister, Romanist, Lusitanist and lexicographer: the "Houaiss" is a six-volume dictionary of the Portuguese language, which appeared from 2002
6th	1999		Affonso Arinos de Mello Franco (1930-2020)

Cadeira 18 - " João Francisco Lisboa "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1916	José Veríssimo (1857-1916)	Veríssimo is still considered an influential literary historian and critic, who in his História da literatura brasileira put the beginning of an independent Brazilian literature in 1835.
2	1917	1918	Francisco Inácio Marcondes Homem de Melo (1837-1918)
3	1918	1925	Alberto Faria (1869-1925)
4th	1926	1932	Luís Carlos da Fonseca Monteiro de Barros (1880-1932)
5	1933	1944	Antônio Joaquim Pereira da Silva (1876–1944)
6th	1945	1983	Peregrino Júnior (1898-1983)
7th	1984		Arnaldo Niskier (* 1935)

Cadeira 19 - " Joaquim Caetano "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1918	Alcindo Guanabara (1865-1918)	here should be a short explanatory text about the academician, e.g. B. about his work, special recognition etc.
2	1919	1922	Silvério Gomes Pimenta (1840-1922)
3	1923	1959	Gustavo Barroso (1888-1959)	Barroso was the Academy's fifteenth president from 1932 to 1933.
4th	1960	1973	Antônio da Silva Melo (1886–1973)
5	1974	1993	Américo Jacobina Lacombe (1909–1993)
6th	1993	2003	Marcos Almir Madeira (1916-2003)
7th	2004		Antonio Carlos Secchin (* 1952)

Cadeira 20 - " Joaquim Manuel de Macedo "

No.	from	to	Surname
1	1897	1913	Salvador de Mendonça (1841-1913)
2	1914	1918	Emílio de Meneses (1866-1918)
3	1919	1934	Humberto de Campos (1884-1934)
4th	1935	1969	Múcio Leão (1898–1969)
5	1970	1998	Aurélio de Lira Tavares (1905-1998)
6th	1999		Murilo Melo Filho (* 1929)

Cadeira 21 - " Joaquim Serra "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1905	José do Patrocínio (1853 / 1854–1905)	Patrocínio became an outstanding figure in the anti-slavery movement in Brazil from 1879 onwards , in particular through his abolitionist writings. He wrote the declaration of political goals and intentions, which were published in 1883 as the Manifesto da Confederação Abolicionista .
2	1905	1925	Mário de Alencar (1872-1925)
3	1926	1958	Olegário Mariano (1889-1958)
4th	1959	1964	Álvaro Moreira (1888–1964)
5	1965	1990	Adonias Filho (1915-1990)
6th	1991	1999	Dias Gomes (1922–1999)	Alfredo de Freitas Dias Gomes became known in Brazil as a dramaturge and author of over a dozen telenovelas .
7th	1999	2001	Roberto de Oliveira Campos (1917-2001)
8th	2002		Paulo Coelho (* 1947)

Cadeira 22 - " José Bonifácio, o Moço "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1934	Medeiros e Albuquerque (1867–1934)	In 1890 he published an early text version for the Brazilian national anthem . In 1923 Medeiros e Albuquerque became the sixth president of the academy.
2	1935	1952	Miguel Osório de Almeida (1890-1952)
3	1954	1990	Luís Viana Filho (1908–1990)
4th	1990	2016	Ivo Pitanguy (1926-2016)
5	2017		João Almino	Magnum opus: Enigmas da Primavera , honored as a Jabuti Prize winner 2017

Cadeira 23 - " José de Alencar "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1908	Machado de Assis (1839-1908)	The Brazilian author of novels, short stories and poems is considered the most important figure in Brazilian literature and had a great influence on the literature of Brazil in the 19th and 20th centuries.
2	1908	1917	Lafayette Rodrigues Pereira (1834-1917)
3	1917	1930	Alfredo Pujol (1865-1930)
4th	1930	1960	Otávio Mangabeira (1886-1960)
5	1961	2001	Jorge Amado (1912-2001)
6th	2001	2008	Zélia Gattai (1916-2008)	Gattai published 13 works; the best known was the autobiographical novel "Anarchists, Thank God" . In 2001, she became the fifth woman ever to be admitted to the Academy, succeeding her late husband Jorge Amado in the prestigious chair 23.
7th	2008	2013	Luiz Paulo Horta (1943-2013)
8th	2013		Antônio Torres (* 1940)

Cadeira 24 - " Júlio Ribeiro "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1916	Garcia Redondo (1854-1916)
2	1917	1940	Luís Guimarães Filho (1878–1940)
3	1940	1968	Manuel Bandeira (1886–1968)
4th	1969	1994	Ciro dos Anjos (1906-1994)
5	1994	2016	Sábato Magaldi (1927-2016)	His Panorama do Teatro Brasileiro , published in 2001, is considered to be the main work of the theater scholar and critic .
6th	2016		Geraldo Carneiro (* 1952)	Mineiro Geraldo Carneiro is a poet, songwriter, screenwriter, translated William Shakespeare's sonnets and adapted Frank Wedekind's Lulu for the Brazilian theater.

Cadeira 25 - " Junqueira Freire "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1906	Franklin Dória (1836-1906)
2	1907	1916	Artur Orlando da Silva (1858-1916)
3	1916	1955	Ataulfo de Paiva (1867–1955)	Ataulfo Nápoles de Paiva was the nineteenth President of the Academy in 1937.
4th	1955	1957	José Lins do Rego (1901–1957)
5	1958	1990	Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco (1905–1990)
6th	1991		Alberto Venancio Filho (* 1934)

Cadeira 26 - " Laurindo Rabelo "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1909	Guimarães Passos (1867–1909)
2	1910	1921	João do Rio (1881-1921)	João do Rio was the pseudonym of João Paulo Emílio Cristóvão dos Santos Coelho Barreto, or Paulo Barreto for short.
3	1922	1933	Constâncio Alves (1862–1933)
4th	1934	1963	Ribeiro Couto (1898–1963)
5	1963	1969	Gilberto Amado (1887–1969)
6th	1970	1984	Mauro Mota (1911-1984)
7th	1985		Marcos Vilaça (* 1939)	The former President of the Brazilian Federal Audit Office, author of the work The Landlords , translated into German , was President of the Academy from 2006 to 2007 and from 2010 to 2011.

Cadeira 27 - " Antônio Peregrino Maciel Monteiro "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1910	Joaquim Nabuco (1849-1910)	As a member of the Brazilian parliament, Nabuco supported the abolitionist campaign from 1878 . In 1878 he founded the Brazilian Society against Slavery (Sociedade Antiescravidão Brasileira), which played a major role in the abolition of slavery in 1888 (see Lei Áurea ). The reasons for this were less humanitarian beliefs than the belief that slavery was responsible for much of the country's problems. The supporter of the monarchy withdrew from political life after the proclamation of the republic in 1889. His autobiography Minha formação (My Education) from 1900 is considered a major literary work .
2	1910	1931	Dantas Barreto (1850-1931)
3	1931	1934	Gregório da Fonseca (1875–1934)
4th	1936	1971	Levi Carneiro (1882–1971)
5	1972	1980	Otávio de Faria (1908–1980)
6th	1981		Eduardo Portella (* 1932)

Cadeira 28 - " Manuel Antônio de Almeida "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1918	Inglês de Sousa (1853-1918)
2	1919	1942	Xavier Marques (1861-1942)
3	1943	1988	Menotti Del Picchia (1892-1988)
4th	1989	2005	Oscar Dias Correia (1921-2005)
5	2006		Domício Proença Filho (* 1936)	Proença Filho was particularly known as a linguist and in 2004 published the four-volume work "Língua Portuguesa, Comunicação, Cultura" .

Cadeira 29 - " Martins Pena "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1908	Artur de Azevedo (1855-1908)	Azevedo drew cartoons that angered the government and wrote short stories and plays. As a theater critic, he promoted the establishment of the Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro .
2	1909	1924	Vicente de Carvalho (1866-1924)
3	1924	1954	Cláudio de Sousa (1876–1954)
4th	1954	2006	Josué Montello (1917-2006)
5	2006	2010	José Mindlin (1914-2010)
6th	2010		Geraldo Holanda Cavalcanti (* 1929)	The poet lawyer and ambassador emerged as a poet and translator. He was elected 51st President of the Academy in 2014.

Cadeira 30 - " Pardal Mallet "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1905	Pedro Rabelo (1868-1905)
2	1906	1914	Heráclito Graça (1837-1914)
3	1914	1960	Antônio Austregésilo (1876–1960)
4th	1961	1989	Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira (1910–1989)	Romanist and lexicographer, known for his Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa , the Dicionário Aurélio, first published in 1975 .
5	1989		Nélida Piñon (* 1937)	Her generational novel A Republica dos Sonhos (Republic of Dreams) had great success .

Cadeira 31 - " Pedro Luís Pereira de Sousa "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1898	Luís Guimarães Júnior (1845–1898)
2	1898	1934	João Ribeiro (1860-1934)
3	1934	1937	Paulo Setúbal (1893-1937)
4th	1937	1974	Cassiano Ricardo (1895–1974)
5	1974	1989	José Cândido de Carvalho (1914–1989)
6th	1989	2003	Geraldo França de Lima (1914-2003)
7th	2003	2011	Moacyr Scliar (1937-2011)	The doctor-poet, multiple Prêmio Jabuti laureate, dedicated a large part of his work to the Jewish identity in the diaspora and the Judaism of Brazil. Published as German translations u. a. The One Man Army , The Strange People of Rafael Mendes and The Centaur in the Garden .
8th	2011		Merval Pereira (born 1949)

Cadeira 32 - " Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegre "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1927	Carlos de Laet (1847-1927)
2	1928	1938	Ramiz Galvão (1846-1938)
3	1938	1967	Viriato Correia (1884–1967)
4th	1967	1973	Joracy Camargo (1898-1973)
5	1973	1989	Genolino Amado (1902-1989)
6th	1990	2014	Ariano Suassuna (1927-2014)	Suassuna, who later converted to Catholicism, wrote highly regarded contemporary plays, novels and poems. As a literary regionalist , he is connected to his homeland in northeastern Brazil. Into German were u. a. translated: The testament of the dog or the play of Our Lady of the Compassionate (theater) and The Stone of the Kingdom or the story of the prince of the blood of the go-and-come-back (novel).
7th	2014		Zuenir Ventura (* 1931)

Cadeira 33 - " Raul Pompeia "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1925	Domício da Gama (1862-1925)	Domício da Gama is the pseudonym of the journalist, writer and diplomat Domício Afonso Forneiro. Da Gama was President of the Academy in 1919.
2	1926	1944	Fernando Magalhães (1878–1944)	The doctor and professor of obstetrics and gynecology published over 200 medical articles. In 1929 he was the twelfth President of the Academy and, in his second term, the fourteenth President from 1931 to 1932.
3	1944	1961	Luís Edmundo (1878–1961)
4th	1962	2000	Afrânio Coutinho (1911-2000)	Coutinho was one of the editors of the two-volume Enciclopédia de Literatura Brasileira published in 1990 .
5	2000		Evanildo Cavalcante Bechara (* 1928)

Cadeira 34 - " Sousa Caldas "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1898	João Manuel Pereira da Silva (1817–1898)	Lawyer, journalist, writer, historian and politician. Magnum opus is his seven-volume História da fundação do Império .
2	1898	1912	Barão do Rio Branco (1845-1912)
3	1912	1926	Lauro Müller (1863-1926)
4th	1926	1956	Francisco de Aquino Correia (1885–1956)
5	1956	1981	Raimundo Magalhães Júnior (1907–1981)
6th	1982	1993	Carlos Castelo Branco (1920–1993)
7th	1993	2014	João Ubaldo Ribeiro (1941-2014)	João Ubaldo Ribeiro has a literary connection to his homeland Bahia , whose inhabitants he describes in a captivating way. His works are assigned to the literary style of magical realism in the manner of Gabriel García Márquez . He has autobiographically summarized his experiences in Germany in A Brazilian in Berlin , published in 2010.
8th	2014		Evaldo Cabral de Mello (* 1936)	Mello was his country's ambassador for a long time; He enjoys a high reputation as a historian of Brazilian colonial history, his main work is his O negócio do Brasil (The Brazil Business ), published in 2011.

Cadeira 35 - " Tavares Bastos "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1944	Rodrigo Otávio (1866-1944)
2	1944	1969	Rodrigo Otávio Filho (1892-1969)
3	1969	1987	José Honório Rodrigues (1913–1987)
4th	1987	1989	Celso Ferreira da Cunha (1917–1989)	The Medievalist and linguist became known for his grammars of Portuguese. In 1984 he published his Nova gramática do português contemporâneo , of which there is also a short and a mini version.
5	1989		Cândido Antônio José Francisco Mendes de Almeida (* 1928)

Cadeira 36 - " Teófilo Dias "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1938	Afonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo Júnior (1860-1938)	The poet lawyer Conde de Afonso Celso was an advocate of abolitionism. His new word "ufanismo" (ufanism) stands for an exaggerated, even euphemistic form of expression.
2	1939	1971	Clementino Fraga (1880–1971)
3	1971	1982	Paulo Carneiro (1901-1982)
4th	1982	1991	José Guilherme Merquior (1941–1991)
5	1991	2013	João de Scantimburgo (1915-2013)
6th	2013		Fernando Henrique Cardoso (* 1931)

Cadeira 37 - " Tomás Antônio Gonzaga "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1930	José Júlio da Silva Ramos (1853–1930)	Known by the short form of the name: Silva Ramos
2	1931	1941	José de Alcântara Machado de Oliveira (1875–1941)	Short forms of the name also: José de Alcântara Machado and Alcântara Machado
3	1941	1954	Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (1882–1954)
4th	1954	1968	Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo (1892–1968)	Short forms of the name also: Assis Chateaubriand and "Chatô"
5	1968	1999	João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920–1999)
6th	2000	2014	Ivan Junqueira (1934-2014)
7th	2014	2016	Ferreira Gullar (1930-2016)
8th	2017		Arno Wehling (* 1947)	Historian of German descent

Cadeira 38 - " Tobias Barreto "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1931	Graça Aranha (1868–1931)	Full name: José Pereira da Graça Aranha.
2	1931	1932	Alberto Santos Dumont (1873-1932)	Santos Dumont was one of the first airship pioneers in South America.
3	1933	1954	Celso Vieira (1878–1954)
4th	1955	1966	Maurício Campos de Medeiros (1885–1966)
5	1966	1980	José Américo de Almeida (1887–1980)	First in the Vargas cabinet , José Américo went into internal emigration. His literary work is not extensive, but what his work A Bagaceira ( Die Zuckermühle) from 1928 formed language and theme for the Brazilian regionalism of the northeast.
6th	1980		José Sarney (* 1930)

Cadeira 39 - " Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen "

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1928	Oliveira Lima (1867-1928)
2	1928	1931	Alberto de Faria (1865-1931)
3	1933	1933	Rocha Pombo (1857-1933)
4th	1934	1949	Rodolfo Garcia (1873-1949)
5	1950	1979	Elmano Cardim (1891–1979)
6th	1979	1992	Otto Lara Resende (1922–1992)
7th	1993	2003	Roberto Marinho (1904-2003)
8th	2003		Marco Maciel (* 1940)	Former Minister of Education and Culture, Vice-President of Brazil, Senator for Pernambuco. In his political writings he addressed liberalism.

Cadeira 40 - " José Maria da Silva Paranhos" , Visconde do Rio Branco

No.	from	to	Surname	Remarks
1	1897	1901	Eduardo Paulo da Silva Prado (1860–1901)
2	1901	1916	Afonso Arinos (1868-1916)
3	1916	1934	Miguel Couto (1864-1934)
4th	1935	1983	Alceu Amoroso Lima (1893–1983)
5	1984	2016	Evaristo de Moraes Filho (1914-2016)
6th	2016		Edmar Bacha (* 1942)	The economist Bacha was a co-creator of the Plano Real . With O Rei da Belínda he created a fabulous country and symbol of Brazil in 1974, which was followed in 2012 by Belíndia 2.0 with fables and essays on a country of contrasts.

Index: Alphabetically by first name (Brazilian)

A.

Abgar Renault
Adelmar Tavares
Adonias Filho
Affonso Arinos de Mello Franco (1930–2020), diplomat, chair 17
Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco (1905–1990), lawyer, chair 25
Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco (1868–1916), writer, chair 40
Afonso Celso
Afonso d'Escragnolle Taunay
Afonso Pena Júnior
Afrânio Coutinho
Afrânio Peixoto
Alberto da Costa e Silva
Alberto de Faria
Alberto de Oliveira
Alberto Faria
Alberto Venâncio Filho
Alcântara Machado
Alceu Amoroso Lima
Alcides Maia
Alcindo Guanabara
Alfredo Bosi
Alfredo Pujol
Aloísio de Castro
Aluísio Azevedo
Álvaro Lins
Álvaro Moreyra
Amadeu Amaral
Américo Jacobina Lacombe
Ana Maria Machado
Aníbal Freire da Fonseca
Antônio Austregésilo
Antônio Callado
Antonio Carlos Secchin
Antônio Carneiro Leão
Antônio da Silva Melo
Antônio Houaiss
Antônio Olinto
Aquino Correia
Araripe Júnior
Ariano Suassuna
Arnaldo Niskier
Arno Wehling
Artur Azevedo
Artur Jaceguai
Artur Orlando da Silva
Assis Chateaubriand
Ataulfo de Paiva
Augusto de Lima
Augusto Meyer
Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira
Aurélio de Lira Tavares
Austregésilo de Athayde