Premio Jabuti
The Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura (Jabuti Literature Prize) is the most widely awarded Brazilian literary prize .
The Jabuti Prize was created in 1959 by Edgard Cavalheiro , then President of the Brazilian Book Chamber Câmara Brasileira do Livro (CBL), to enrich and stimulate Brazilian literature. The award motivates readers and those interested in literature as well as authors, translators and illustrators, publishers, publishing houses and bookshops to jointly find and award the best works in around 30 categories each year. In Portuguese, jabuti means “little turtle”.
Award winners
The winners include Maria Arminda do Nascimento Arruda , Manoel de Barros , Carlos Heitor Cony , Bernardo Carvalho , Geraldo Holanda Cavalcanti , Alberto Dines , Florestan Fernandes , Dalton Trevisan , Cecília Meireles , Ruy Castro , Rubem Fonseca , Rachel de Queiroz , Marina Colasanti , Chico Buarque , Ignácio de Loyola Brandão , Caco Barcellos , Gilberto Dimenstein , Isaias Pessotti , Lygia Bojunga Nunes , Sérgio Sant'Anna , Moacyr Scliar , José Roberto Torero , João Silvério Trevisan , Clarice Lispector , Ana Miranda , Raduan Nassar and many more.
Web links
- Prêmio Jabuti website (Brazilian Portuguese)
- História do Prêmio Jabuti (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Internet presence of the CBL (Portuguese, partly English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ All award winners are listed in the list of award winners for the corresponding article in the Portuguese Wikipedia .