Born 1944 · Brazil
Jabuti 2025 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Bambino in Rome”
Chico Buarque · 80 when first published
Novel · 168 pages · Coming of age, Autofiction, Family
AI-generated summary:A Brazilian boy newly arrived in 1950s Rome explores the city by bicycle, writes love letters to his first crush and plays football with the greengrocer's son, in a fiction drawn from memory.
Jabuti 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“These People”
Chico Buarque · 75 when first published
Novel · 200 pages · Satire, Politics
AI-generated summary:Manuel Duarte had a best-seller in the 1990s; now broke, blocked and lonely, he keeps a jumpy diary as Rio de Janeiro comes apart around his Leblon streets.
Jabuti 2010 · Shortlist
Leite Derramado
Chico Buarque · 65 when first published
Novel · 177 pages · Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:A man past a hundred lies in a Rio hospital, rambling to anyone nearby about the illustrious ancestors of his fading family and about Matilde, the wife he lost.
Jabuti 2004 · Shortlist
Budapeste
Chico Buarque · 59 when first published
Novel · 192 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:José Costa writes other people's books in Rio for a living; worn out by his own gift, he drifts towards writing literature and towards Hungary and its famously difficult tongue.