Jorge Amado
Novelist, Author
1912 – 2001
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Who was Jorge Amado?
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He was the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1978. His work reflects the image of a mestizo 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.
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- Born
- Aug 10, 1912
Itabuna - Also known as
- Jorge Luis Amado
- The Balzac of Brazil
- Jorge Leal Amado de Faria
- Pelé of the Written Word
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Zélia Gattai
(1945 - 2001/08/06) - Matilde Garcia Rosa
(1933 - 1941)
- Zélia Gattai
- Children
- Religion
- Atheism
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Profession
- Education
- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Faculty of Law
- Lived in
- Bahia
- Died
- Aug 6, 2001
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on July 23, 2013
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