Jorge Amado
Jorge Amado (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, including 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.
Jorge Amado | |
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Amado in 1988 | |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 5 February 1946 – 10 January 1948 | |
| Constituency | São Paulo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jorge Amado 10 August 1912 Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil |
| Died | 6 August 2001 (aged 88) Salvador, Bahia, Brazil |
| Political party | PCB (1932–1956) |
| Spouse |
Zélia Gattai (m. 1945) |
| Alma mater | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (LL.B.) |
| Occupation | Writer, professor |
| Writing career | |
| Genre | Novel, crônica, fable, short story |
| Literary movement | Modernism |
| Notable works | Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Tieta, Captains of the Sands |
| Relatives | Véra Clouzot (cousin) |
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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.