| Afrânio Coutinho | Afrânio Peixoto | Antônio Houaiss |
| Augusto Rodrigues | Darcy Ribeiro | Jorge Amado | Josué Montello |
| Monteiro Lobato | Perícles Madureira de Pinho |

Testimony

"... If Anísio's intelligence splendidly expressed itself before a blank sheet of paper, in the protection of a working office, it was even more vivid, brilliant, luminous, under the surprising conditions of a live discussion. This is why those who knew the writer from his books, admired him as one of the highest figures of Brazilian culture; however, he was only truly known by those who were lucky enough to hear him during the instants of his improvised interventions, through the impetus of his powerful and incomparable intelligence ..."

JOSUÉ MONTELLO