The Prêmio Machado de Assis (the Machado de Assis Prize) is a

literary prize A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Ma ...

awarded by the

Brazilian Academy of Letters The Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL) ( English: ''Brazilian Academy of Letters'') is a Brazilian literary non-profit society established at the end of the 19th century. The first president, Machado de Assis, declared its foundation on Tue ...

, and possibly the most prestigious literary award in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. The prize was founded in 1941, named in memory of the novelist Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908). It is awarded in recognition of a lifetime's work.

Winners

* 2021 - Ruy Castro * 2017 - João José Reis * 2016 - Ignácio de Loyola Brandão * 2015 - Rubem Fonseca * 2014 - Vamireh Chacon * 2013 - Silviano Santiago * 2012 -

Dalton Trevisan Dalton Jérson Trevisan (born 14 June 1925) is a Brazilian author of short stories. He has been described as an "acclaimed short-story chronicler of lower-class mores and popular dramas." Trevisan won the 2012 Prémio Camões, the leading Portu ...

* 2011 - Carlos Guilherme Mota * 2010 - Benedito Nunes * 2009 - Salim Miguel * 2008 - Autran Dourado * 2007 - Roberto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque * 2006 - César Leal * 2005 - Ferreira Gullar * 2004 - Francisco de Assis Brasil * 2003 - Antonio Carlos Villaça * 2002 -

Wilson Martins Wilson Nunes Martins (born May 17, 1953, in Santa Cruz do Piauí, Piauí) is a Brazilian politician and member of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB). He served as Governor of Piauí Piaui (, ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the ...

* 2001 –

Ana Maria Machado Ana Maria Machado (born 24 December 1941) is a Brazilian writer of children's books, one of the most significant alongside Lygia Bojunga Nunes and Ruth Rocha. She received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2000 for her "lasti ...

* 2000 – Antônio Torres * 1999 –

Fernando Sabino Fernando Tavares Sabino (October 12, 1923 – October 11, 2004) was a Brazilian writer and journalist. Life Sabino was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, the son of Dominic Sabino and D. Odette Tavares Sabino. He lived there until he was twe ...

* 1998 – Joel Silveira * 1997 – J.J. Veiga * 1996 – Carlos Heitor Cony * 1995 – Leodegário A. de Azevedo Filho * 1994 –

Antônio Olinto Antônio Olinto Marques da Rocha (Ubá, MG - May 10, 1919 – Rio de Janeiro, RJ - September 12, 2009) was a Brazilian writer, essayist and translator. Among his work are included poetry, novels, literary criticism, political analysis, child ...

* 1993 –

Antonio Candido Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza (July 24, 1918 – May 12, 2017) was a Brazilian writer, professor, sociologist, and literary critic. As a critic of Brazilian literature, he is regarded as having been one of the foremost scholars on the subject ...

* 1992 – Fausto Cunha * 1991 – Maria Clara Machado * 1990 – Sábato Magaldi * 1989 – Gilberto Mendonça Teles * 1988 – Dante Milano * 1987 – Nilo Pereira * 1986 – Péricles Eugênio da Silva Ramos * 1985 – Thales de Azevedo * 1984 – Henriqueta Lisboa * 1983 – Paulo Rónai * 1982 – Franklin de Oliveira * 1981 – Ayres da Matta Machado Filho * 1980 –

Mário Quintana Mário de Miranda Quintana (July 30, 1906 – May 5, 1994) was a Brazilian writer and translator. He became known as the poet of "simple things", and his style is marked by irony, profundity and technical perfection. The main themes of his poetr ...

* 1979 – Gilka Machado * 1978 – Carolina Nabuco * 1977 – Raul Bopp * 1976 – Mario da Silva Brito * 1975 –

Hermes Lima Hermes Lima (), (22 December 1902 – 10 October 1978) was Brazilian politician who was the Prime Minister of Brazil, jurist, and winner of the 1975 Prêmio Machado de Assis. Political career He originally became an elected federal deputy of ...

* 1974 – Waldemar Cavalcanti * 1973 – Andrade Murici * 1972 – Dalcídio Jurandir * 1971 – Murillo Araujo * 1970 – Otávio de Faria * 1969 – Edilson Carneiro * 1968 – Oscar Mendes * 1967 – Adelino Magalhães * 1966 –

Lúcio Cardoso Joaquim Lúcio Cardoso Filho, known as Lúcio Cardoso (August 14, 1912 – September 22, 1968), was a Brazilian novelist, playwright, and poet. Biography The son of an impoverished but prominent family in Curvelo, Minas Gerais, Lúcio Cardoso wa ...

* 1965 –

Cecília Meireles Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles (7 November 1901 – 9 November 1964) was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the Portuguese l ...

* 1964 – Joracy Camargo * 1963 –

Gilberto Freyre Gilberto de Mello Freyre (March 15, 1900 – July 18, 1987) was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist, congressman born in Recife, Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil. He is commonly associated with other ...

* 1962 –

Antenor Nascentes Antenor de Veras Nascentes (1886–1972) was a Brazilian philologist, etymologist, and lexicographer. He wrote the first etymological dictionary of Brazil. He also had an interest in dialect and experimental phonetics. He did analysis of popular sp ...

* 1961 –

João Guimarães Rosa João Guimarães Rosa (; 27 June 1908 – 19 November 1967) was a Brazilian novelist, short story writer and diplomat. Rosa only wrote one novel, '' Grande Sertão: Veredas'' (known in English as ''The Devil to Pay in the Backlands''), a revoluti ...

* 1960 – not awarded * 1959 – José Maria Belo * 1958 –

Rachel de Queiroz Rachel de Queiroz (, November 17, 1910 – November 4, 2003) was a Brazilian author, translator and journalist. Biography Rachel de Queiroz was born on 17 November 1910 in Fortaleza, capital of the northeastern state of Ceará. During her ...

* 1957 –

Tasso da Silveira TASSO (Two Arm Spectrometer SOlenoid) was a particle detector at the PETRA particle accelerator at the German national laboratory DESY. The TASSO collaboration is best known for having discovered the gluon, the mediator of the strong interactio ...

* 1956 – Luiz da Câmara Cascudo * 1955 – Onestaldo Penafort * 1954 – Dinah Silveira de Queiroz * 1953 – Érico Veríssimo * 1952 – Antonio da Silva Melo * 1951 – Padre Augusto Magne * 1950 – Eugênio Gomes * 1949 – not awarded * 1948 – Augusto Meyer * 1947 – not awarded * 1946 – Tobias Monteiro * 1945 – Osório Dutra * 1944 – not awarded * 1943 – Sousa da Silveira * 1942 –

Afonso Schmidt Affonso Schmidt (29 June 1890 – 3 April 1964) was a Brazilian journalist, short story writer, novelist, and playwright. Biography Affonso Schmidt was born on Sunday, 29 June 1890, in Cubatão. In Cubatão, he founded the newspaper ''Vés ...

* 1941 – Tetra de Teffé

References

Brazilian literary awards Awards established in 1941 1941 establishments in Brazil Portuguese-language literary awards * {{Brazil-arts-stub