José Paulo Cavalcanti Filho (born May 21, 1948) is a Brazilian lawyer and writer.

[1] He was also President of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), of EBN (later Empresa Brasil de Comunicação - EBC) and of the Social Communication Council (an organ of the National Congress).

Consultant for UNESCO and the World Bank, he occupies chair 27 of the Pernambuco Academy of Letters.

In 2012, he won the José Ermírio de Moraes award for his book Fernando Pessoa – a quasi-autobiography.

He also received awards in countries such as Romania, Israel, Spain, France, Holland, Germany, Russia, England and the United States.