Brazil’s National Library Foundation announced the winners of the 2026 National Library Literary Prize on 20 October, across 13 categories.
Adélia Prado won the poetry prize for O jardim das oliveiras and Paulliny Tort the novel prize for Os imortais. The oral tradition stories prize went to Memórias do cacique by Raoni Mẽtyktire, and Maria Valéria Rezende won the short story prize for Recapitulações.
Other winners include Roger Mello’s U-507 for young adult literature, Lulu Lima’s Gavião for children’s literature, and Natália T. M. Okabayashi’s translation of Nobel laureate Han Kang’s Sem despedidas.
