Antonio Carlos Secchin (Italian: [ˈsek.kɪn]) is a Brazilian writer and academic.
He obtained a PhD from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1982.
He has served as a professor of Brazilian literature at the universities of Bordeaux (1975-1979), Rome (1985), Rennes (1991), Mérida (1999), Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle (2009) and at the Faculty of Letters at UFRJ, where he was promoted in 1993 to the rank of full professor.
19 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, to which he was elected on June 3, 2004, in succession to Marcos Almir Madeira.
He was received on August 6, 2004 by academic Ivan Junqueira.