The Prêmio Jabuti (the "Tortoise Prize") is the most traditional literary award in Brazil, given by the . It was conceived by Edgard Cavalheiro in 1959 when he presided over the CBL, with the interest of rewarding authors, editors, illustrators, graphics and booksellers who stood out each year. In 1959, there were only seven categories: Literature, Cover, Illustration, Editor of the Year, Chart of the Year, Bookseller of the Year and Literary Personality. Subsequently, the award incorporated other categories involving the creation and production of books, such as Adaptation, Graphic Design and Translation. In addition to the traditional categories such as Romance, Tales and Chronicles, Poetry, Children's, Youth, Reportage and Biography. The "Fiction Book of the Year" and "Non-Fiction Book of the Year" categories were created in 1991 and 1993, respectively. The Jabuti Award began to include two new divisions in 2017: Comics and Brazilian Book Published Abroad. In 2018, the Jabuti Award changed its format, with the then 29 categories being reduced to 18, distributed along four axes. In addition, it also changed the "Book of the Year" category (which until then awarded two books, one fiction and one nonfiction), starting to prize only one book, regardless of genre. The Yearbook will be awarded to a single work, whether Fiction or Non-Fiction. The author will receive a special Tortoise trophy and a gross value of R$ 100,000.00 (one hundred thousand reais). The publisher of the work will receive a unique figurine (2019). Since its first edition in 1959 many new categories have been added, and today it covers numerous literary and related categories:

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Translation Translation is the communication of the semantics, meaning of a #Source and target languages, source-language text by means of an Dynamic and formal equivalence, equivalent #Source and target languages, target-language text. The English la ...

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

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Urban Studies Urban studies is based on the study of the urban development of cities and regions—it makes up the theory portion of the field of urban planning. This includes studying the history of city development from an architectural point of view, to th ...

Photography Photography is the visual arts, art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is empl ...

Communication Communication is commonly defined as the transmission of information. Its precise definition is disputed and there are disagreements about whether Intention, unintentional or failed transmissions are included and whether communication not onl ...

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Arts The arts or creative arts are a vast range of human practices involving creativity, creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation. The arts encompass diverse and plural modes of thought, deeds, and existence in an extensive ...

Literary Criticism A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature's ...

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Literary Theory Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. Culler 1997, p.1 Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history, m ...

Illustration An illustration is a decoration, interpretation, or visual explanation of a text, concept, or process, designed for integration in print and digitally published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, vi ...

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Children's Literature Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. In addition to conventional literary genres, modern children's literature is classified by the intended age of the reade ...

Young Adult Literature Young adult literature (YA) is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18 and includes most of the themes found in adult fiction, such as family dysfunction, substance abuse, alcoholism, and sexuality. It is characterized by simpler world build ...

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Technology Technology is the application of Conceptual model, conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. The word ''technology'' can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, including both tangible too ...

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Information Technology Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data processing, data and information processing, and storage. Inf ...

Education Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education als ...

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

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Psychoanalysis PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious mind, unconscious processes and their influence on conscious mind, conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on The Inte ...

Journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journ ...

Pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

Economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

Business Administration Business administration is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. Overview The administration of a business includes the performance o ...

Business Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or Trade, buying and selling Product (business), products (such as goods and Service (economics), services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for ...

Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...

Biography A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curri ...

Cover Art Cover art is a type of artwork presented as an illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product, such as a book (often on a dust jacket), magazine, newspaper ( tabloid), comic book, video game ( box art), music album ( album ar ...

Poetry Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...

Social Sciences Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among members within those societies. The term was former ...

Natural Sciences Natural science or empirical science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer ...

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Health Sciences The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to health sciences: Health sciences – those sciences that focus on health, or health care, as core parts of their subject matter. Health sciences relate to multiple a ...

Short Stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the old ...

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Chronicle A chronicle (, from Greek ''chroniká'', from , ''chrónos'' – "time") is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a timeline. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and local events ...

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* Novels ( Premio Jabuti - Literary Novel category) *

Comic Book A comic book, comic-magazine, or simply comic is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panel (comics), panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and wri ...

Partial selection of winners

1959

Jorge Amado Jorge Amado ( 10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, includi ...

, 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,

* 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

1970

* Lupe Cotrim, Poetry

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 Augusto de Campos (born 14 February 1931) is a Brazilian writer who (with his brother Haroldo de Campos) was a founder of the Concrete poetry movement in Brazil. He is also a translator, music critic and visual artist. Work In 1952 he founded ...

, 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 Editora Globo S.A. is a Brazilian publishing house, property of :pt:Fundação Roberto Marinho, Fundação Roberto Marinho. It began as a bookstore called Livraria do Globo, created in Porto Alegre, in December 1883, by Laudelino Pinheiro de Barc ...

, 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 Alfredo (, ) is a cognate of the Anglo-Saxon name Alfred and a common Italian, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish language personal name. Given name Artists and musicians * Aldo Sambrell (1931–2010), Spanish actor also known as Alfredo ...

Pedro L. B. Lisboa Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meanin ...

and Lacaz/

Porto Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto c ...

/ 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

2001

* Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Human Sciences and Education

2011

* Ferreira Gullar, Fiction book of the year and Poetry. * Dalton Trevisan, Stories / novels * Marina Colasanti, Children's Literature Note:

Gilberto Freyre Gilberto de Mello Freyre (March 15, 1900 – July 18, 1987) was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman born in Recife. Considered one of the most important sociologists of the 20th cen ...

won a posthumous award.

References

External links

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Prêmio Jabuti website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Premio Jabuti Brazilian literary awards Awards established in 1958 Portuguese-language literary awards 1958 establishments in Brazil