Jorge Amado

Jorge Amado
Amado in 1988
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
5 February 1946 – 10 January 1948
ConstituencySão Paulo
Personal details
Born
Jorge Amado

(1912-08-10)10 August 1912
Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil
Died6 August 2001(2001-08-06) (aged 88)
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Political partyPCB (1932–1956)
Spouse
(m. 1945)
Alma materFederal University of Rio de Janeiro (LL.B.)
OccupationWriter, professor
Writing career
GenreNovel, crônica, fable, short story
Literary movementModernism
Notable worksGabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Tieta, Captains of the Sands
RelativesVéra Clouzot (cousin)
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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.

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.