The Prêmio Jabuti (the "Tortoise Prize") is a well-known literary award in Brazil. It was created in 1958 by Edgard Cavalheiro.
Since its first edition in 1959 many new categories have been added, and today it covers numerous literary and related categories:
Categories
- Translation
- Architecture and Urban Studies, Photography, Communications and Arts
- Literary Criticism and Literary Theory
- Illustration for Children's Literature or Young Adult Literature
- Exact Sciences, Technology and Information Technology
- Education, Psychology and Psychoanalysis
- Journalism
- Pedagogy
- Economics, Business Administration, Business
- Law
- Biography
- Cover Art
- Poetry
- Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences and Health Sciences
- Short Stories and Chronicles
- Children's Literature
- Young Adult Literature
- Novels (Premio Jabuti - Literary Novel category)
Partial selection of winners
1959
- Jorge Amado, Novel
- Jorge Medauar, Stories / novels
- Associação dos Geógrafos Brasileiros (Seção São Paulo), Literary Studies (Essays)
- Mário da Silva Brito, Literary History
- Renato Sêneca Fleury, Children's Literature
- Isa Silveira Leal, Juvenile literature
- Carlos Bastos, Illustrations
- Aldemir Martins, Cover Artist
1960
- Marques Rebelo, Novel / Fiction
- Dalton Trevisan, Stories / novels
- Sosigenes Costa, Poetry
- Paulo Cavalcanti, Literary Studies (Essays)
- Antonio Candido, Literary History
- Arnaldo Magalhães de Giacomo, Children's Literature
- Oswaldo Storni, Illustrations
- Eugênio Hirsch, Cover Artist
1961
- Maria de Lourdes Teixeira, Novel / Fiction
- Clarice Lispector, Stories / novels
- Olímpio de Sousa Andrade, Literary Studies (Essays)
- Cassiano Ricardo, Poetry
- Otto Maria Carpeaux, Literary History
- Breno Silveira, Literary translations
- Francisco de Barros Júnior, Children's Literature
- Frank Schaeffer, Illustrations
- Clóvis Graciano, Cover Artist
1963
- Marques Rebelo, Novel / Fiction
- Julieta de Godoy Ladeira, Stories / novels
- Mário Chamie, Poetry
- Mário Graciotti, Literary Studies (Essays)
- Jacob Penteado, Biography and memoir
- José Aderaldo Castelo, Literary History
- Jorge Mautner, Adult Literature (author revelation)
- Cecília Meireles, Literary translations
- Elos Sand, Children's Literature
- Vicente Di Grado, Cover Artist
1964
- Francisco Marins, Novel / Fiction
- João Antônio, Stories / novels
- Herman Lima, Poetry
- Cecília Meireles, Poetry
- Otto Maria Carpeaux, Literary History
- João Antônio, Adult Literature (author revelation)
- Maria José Dupré, Children's Literature
- Florestan Fernandes, Human Sciences (except letters)
- Oswaldo Sangiorgi, Exact science - Mathematics
- Crodoaldo Pavan/Antônio Brito da Cunha/Maury Miranda, Natural Sciences - Genetics
- Percy Lau, Illustrations
- Ove Osterbye, Cover Artist
1979
- Mário Donato, Novel / Fiction
- Sônia Coutinho, Stories / novels
- Leila Coelho Frota, Poetry
- Davi Arrigucci Júnior, Literary Studies (Essays)
- Cyro dos Anjos, Biography or memoir
- Augusto de Campos, Translation of literary work
- Joel Rufino dos Santos, Children's Literature
- Adofo Crippa, Human Sciences (except letters)
- Cláudio Lucchesi, Tomasz Kowaltowski, Janos Simon, Imre Simon and Istvan Simon, Exact sciences
- Mário Guimarães Ferri, Natural Sciences
- Maurício Prates de Campos Filho, Science (Technology)
- Eugênio Amado, Translation of scientific work
- Alceu Amoroso Lima, Literary person of the year
1983
- Caio Fernando Abreu, Stories / novels
1996
- Charles M. Culver, Best Medical book published in Brazil in 1995
1999
- Carlos Nascimento Silva, Sônia Coutinho and Modesto Carone, Novel / Fiction
- Charles Kiefer, Rubens Figueiredo and João Inácio Padilha, Stories and chronicles
- Haroldo de Campos, Gerardo Melo Mourão and Salgado Maranhão, Poetry
- Editora Globo, Ivo Barroso and Victor Burton, Translation
- Ricardo Azevedo (duas publ) and Lourenço Cazarré, Children's / youth literature
- Eduardo Bueno, Hilário Franco Junior and Novais/Sevcenko/Schwarcz, Human Sciences
- Alfredo K. Oyama Homma, Pedro L. B. Lisboa and Lacaz/Porto/Vaccari/Melo, Natural Science and medicine
- Márcia Helena Mendes Ferraz, Herch Moysés Nussenzveig and Sônia Pitta Coelho/Francisco César Polcino Milies, Exact sciences, Technology and Computers
- Paul Singer, Josué Rios and Celso Furtado, Economics, Management, Business and Law
- Roger Mello, Demóstenes Vargas and Roberto Weigand, Illustration of children's or youth books
2011
- Ferreira Gullar, Fiction book of the year and Poetry.
- Dalton Trevisan, Stories / novels
- Marina Colasanti, Children's Literature
Note: Gilberto Freyre won a posthumous award.
External links
- (in Portuguese) Prêmio Jabuti website
- (in Portuguese) A history of the Prêmio Jabuti