The Prêmio Machado de Assis (the Machado de Assis Prize) is a literary prize awarded by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, and possibly the most prestigious literary award in Brazil. 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
1941 – Tetra de Teffé 1942 – Afonso Schmidt 1943 – Sousa da Silveira 1944 – not awarded 1945 – Osório Dutra 1946 – Tobias Monteiro 1947 – Padre Leonel Franca 1948 – Augusto Meyer 1949 – not awarded 1950 – Eugênio Gomes 1951 – Padre Augusto Magne 1952 – Antonio da Silva Melo 1953 – Érico Veríssimo 1954 – Dinah Silveira de Queiroz 1955 – Onestaldo Penafort 1956 – Luiz da Câmara Cascudo 1957 – Tasso da Silveira 1958 – Rachel de Queiroz 1959 – José Maria Belo 1960 – not awarded 1961 – João Guimarães Rosa 1962 – Antenor Nascentes 1963 – Gilberto Freyre 1964 – Joracy Camargo 1965 – Cecília Meireles 1966 – Lúcio Cardoso 1967 – Adelino Magalhães 1968 – Oscar Mendes 1969 – Edilson Carneiro 1970 – Otávio de Faria 1971 – Murillo Araujo 1972 – Dalcídio Jurandir 1973 – Andrade Murici 1974 – Waldemar Cavalcanti 1975 – Hermes Lima 1976 – Mario da Silva Brito 1977 – Raul Bopp 1978 – Carolina Nabuco 1979 – Gilka Machado 1980 – Mário Quintana 1981 – Ayres da Matta Machado Filho 1982 – Franklin de Oliveira 1983 – Paulo Rónai 1984 – Henriqueta Lisboa 1985 – Thales de Azevedo 1986 – Péricles Eugênio da Silva Ramos 1987 – Nilo Pereira 1988 – Dante Milano 1989 – Gilberto Mendonça Teles 1990 – Sábato Magaldi 1991 – Maria Clara Machado 1992 – Fausto Cunha 1993 – Antonio Candido 1994 – Antônio Olinto 1995 – Leodegário A. de Azevedo Filho 1996 – Carlos Heitor Cony 1997 – J.J. Veiga 1998 – Joel Silveira 1999 – Fernando Sabino 2000 – Antônio Torres 2001 – Ana Maria Machado 2002 – Wilson Martins 2003 – Antonio Carlos Villaça 2004 – Francisco de Assis Brasil 2005 – Ferreira Gullar 2006 – César Leal 2007 – Roberto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque 2008 – Autran Dourado 2009 – Salim Miguel 2010 – Benedito Nunes 2011 – Carlos Guilherme Mota 2012 – Dalton Trevisan 2013 – Silviano Santiago 2014 – Vamireh Chacon 2015 – Rubem Fonseca 2016 – Ignácio de Loyola Brandão 2017 – João José Reis 2018 to 2020 – not awarded 2021 – Ruy Castro 2022 – Roberto DaMattahttps://www.academia.org.br/noticias/antropologo-roberto-damatta-e-o-vencedor-do-premio-machado-de-assis-de-2022 2023 – Marina Colasantihttps://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2023/06/22/marina-colasanti-vence-o-premio-machado-de-assis-2023.ghtml 2024 – Adélia Pradohttps://g1.globo.com/mg/centro-oeste/noticia/2024/06/21/adelia-prado-vence-o-premio-machado-de-assis-2024.ghtml 2025 – Rubens Ricupero 2026 – Cristóvão Tezza
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