Prêmio Machado de Assis

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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.

[edit] Winners

• 2006 - César Leal
• 2005 - Ferreira Gullar
• 2004 - Francisco de Assis Brasil
• 2003 - Antonio Carlos Villaça
• 2002 - Wilson Martins
• 2001 – Ana Maria Machado
• 2000 – Antônio Torres
• 1999 – Fernando Sabino
• 1998 – Joel Silveira
• 1997 – J.J. Veiga
• 1996 – Carlos Heitor Cony
• 1995 – Leodegário A. de Azevedo Filho
• 1994 – Antônio Olinto
• 1993 – Antonio Candido
• 1992 – Fausto Cunha
• 1991 – Maria Clara Machado
• 1990 – Sábato Magaldi
• 1989 – Gilberto Mendonça Telles
• 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
• 1979 – Gilka Machado
• 1978 – Carolina Nabuco
• 1977 – Raul Bopp
• 1976 – Mario da Silva Brito
• 1975 – Hermes Lima
• 1974 – Waldemar Cavalcanti
• 1973 – Andrade Murici
• 1972 – Dalcídio Jurandir
• 1971 – Murillo Araujo
• 1970 – Octavio de Faria
• 1969 – Edilson Carneiro
• 1968 – Oscar Mendes
• 1967 – Adelino Magalhães
• 1966 – Lucio Cardoso
• 1965 – Cecília Meireles
• 1964 – Joracy Camargo
• 1963 – Gilberto Freyre
• 1962 – Antenor Nascentes
• 1961 – João Guimarães Rosa
• 1960 – not awarded
• 1959 – José Maria Belo
• 1958 – Rachel de Queiroz
• 1957 – Tasso da Silveira
• 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
• 1941 – Tetra de Teffé