The 1964–1985 military dictatorship in Brazil engaged in censorship of media, artists, journalists, and others it deemed "subversive", "dangerous", or "immoral".[1][2] The political system installed by the 1964 coup d'état also set out to censor material that went against what it called moral e bons costumes ('morality and good manners').[3]
The government prohibited the production and circulation of such material. In addition to foreign books and authors, especially those social and political in nature, about 140 books by Brazilian authors were forbidden by the state in that period, covering both fiction and non-fiction.[1] Among these Brazilian authors there were Érico Veríssimo, Jorge Amado, Darcy Ribeiro, Rubem Fonseca, Caio Prado Júnior, Celso Furtado, Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, Dalton Trevisan, Maria da Conceição Tavares, Olympio Mourão Filho, and others.
- ^ a b Reimão, Sandra (April 2014). "'Proíbo a publicação e circulação...' – censura a livros na ditadura militar". Estudos Avançados (in Portuguese). 28 (80): 75–90. doi:10.1590/S0103-40142014000100008. ISSN 0103-4014.
- ^ "Livros sob censura Archived March 6, 2019, at the Wayback Machine". Memórias da Ditadura Archived March 4, 2023, at the Wayback Machine. Accessed: 3 March 2019.
- ^ "DECRETO-LEI Nº 1.077". January 26, 1970. Archived from the original on March 8, 2023. Retrieved March 8, 2023.