Silviano Santiago (born 29 September 1936) is a Brazilian writer, literary critic, essayist and scholar.

At the age of ten, he moved to Belo Horizonte.

He got a degree in Neolatin languages at the Federal University of Minas Gerais[2] Santiago moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1961, where specialized in French literature, which will lead him to a doctorate at the University of Paris, Sorbonne.

In 1969, he published in an anthology of Brazilian literature in New York.

Santiago taught at the Rutgers, Toronto, New York, Buffalo and Indiana universities.