Prêmio Jabuti

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:

Partial selection of winners

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

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

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

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

Note: Gilberto Freyre won a posthumous award.

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