Luiz Alberto de Vianna Moniz Bandeira (30 December 1935, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil – 10 November 2017) was a Brazilian writer, professor, political scientist, historian and poet.

[1] When the 1964 coup d'état overthrew President João Goulart, Bandeira fled into exile in Uruguay.

[2] He returned to Brazil some years later and led a clandestine life,[3] continuing his historical research and writing, while participating in the resistance against the military regime.

In 1976, he received grants from, among other institutions, the Ford Foundation, to conduct research in Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay on Brazil's historical role in the Río de la Plata Basin.

[6] He was an Under-Secretary in Rio de Janeiro's State Government, being its representative in the federal capital, Brasília, from 1991 through 1994 and a cultural attaché at the Consulate-General of Brazil in Frankfurt am Main from 1996 through 2002.