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Jorge Amado

Writing • Born 1912

Jorge Amado

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Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1976. His work reflects the image of a Mestiço Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences. He occupied the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1961 until his death in 2001. He won the 1984 International Nonino Prize in Italy. He also was Federal Deputy for São Paulo as a member of the Brazilian Communist Party between 1947 and 1951. Amado was born on Saturday, 10 August 1912, on a farm near the inland city of Itabuna, in the south of the Brazilian state of Bahia....

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Tieta posterTietaSeries • 1989Port of Miracles posterPort of MiraclesSeries • 2001Большая засада posterБольшая засадаSeries • 1995Brava Gente posterBrava GenteSeries • 2000Gabriela posterGabrielaSeries • 2012Gabriela posterGabrielaSeries • 1975Doña Flor y sus dos maridos posterDoña Flor y sus dos maridosSeries • 2019Terras do Sem Fim posterTerras do Sem FimSeries • 1981Gabriela posterGabrielaMovie • 1983Kiss Me Goodbye posterKiss Me GoodbyeMovie • 1982Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands posterDona Flor and Her Two HusbandsMovie • 1976The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell posterThe Two Deaths of Quincas WateryellMovie • 2010Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos posterDona Flor e Seus Dois MaridosMovie • 2017Tieta of Agreste posterTieta of AgresteMovie • 1996Captains of the Sands posterCaptains of the SandsMovie • 2011