Prêmio Jabuti
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The Prêmio Jabuti (the "Tortoise Prize") is the most traditional literary award in Brazil, given by the Brazilian Book Chamber (CBL). 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.[1]
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.[1]
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.[2][3]
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).[4]
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)
- , Literary History
- , Children's Literature
- Isa Silveira Leal, Juvenile literature
- Carlos Bastos, Illustrations
- Aldemir Martins, Cover Artist
1960[]
- Marques Rebelo, Novel / Fiction
- Dalton Trevisan, Stories / novels
- , Poetry
- , Literary Studies (Essays)
- Antonio Candido, Literary History
- , Children's Literature
- , Illustrations
- , Cover Artist
1961[]
- Maria de Lourdes Teixeira, Novel / Fiction
- Clarice Lispector, Stories / novels
- , Literary Studies (Essays)
- Cassiano Ricardo, Poetry
- Otto Maria Carpeaux, Literary History
- , Literary translations
- , Children's Literature
- Frank Schaeffer, Illustrations
- Clóvis Graciano, Cover Artist
1963[]
- Marques Rebelo, Novel / Fiction
- , Stories / novels
- , Poetry
- , Literary Studies (Essays)
- , Biography and memoir
- , Literary History
- Jorge Mautner, Adult Literature (author revelation)
- Cecília Meireles, Literary translations
- , Children's Literature
- , Cover Artist
1964[]
- Francisco Marins, Novel / Fiction
- João Antônio, Stories / novels
- , 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)
- , Exact science - Mathematics
- //, Natural Sciences - Genetics
- , Illustrations
- , Cover Artist
1979[]
- , Novel / Fiction
- Sônia Coutinho, Stories / novels
- , Poetry
- , Literary Studies (Essays)
- Cyro dos Anjos, Biography or memoir
- Augusto de Campos, Translation of literary work
- Joel Rufino dos Santos, Children's Literature
- , Human Sciences (except letters)
- , , Janos Simon, Imre Simon and Istvan Simon, Exact sciences
- Mário Guimarães Ferri, Natural Sciences
- , Science (Technology)
- , Translation of scientific work
- Alceu Amoroso Lima, Literary person of the year
1983[]
- Caio Fernando Abreu, Stories / novels
1996[]
- , Best Medical book published in Brazil in 1995
1999[]
- , Sônia Coutinho and Modesto Carone, Novel / Fiction
- , and , Stories and chronicles
- Haroldo de Campos, and , Poetry
- Editora Globo, and , Translation
- Ricardo Azevedo (duas publ) and , Children's / youth literature
- , and Novais//Schwarcz, Human Sciences
- , and ///, Natural Science and medicine
- , Herch Moysés Nussenzveig and /, Exact sciences, Technology and Computers
- , and Celso Furtado, Economics, Management, Business and Law
- Roger Mello, and , 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
References[]
- ^ a b "Premio Jabuti - História". Premio Jabuti. 2021-11-14.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Facchini, Talita (2018-05-15). "Jabuti increases the prizes and decreases the number of categories". Publish News (in Portuguese).
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Cavalcanti, Heloisa (2018-05-27). "Jabuti Award celebrates its 60th anniversary and bets on a new model". Gente (in Portuguese).
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Voting and Awards". Premio Jabuti (in Portuguese). 2021-11-14.
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