Jorge amado biography

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Jorge Amado

Brazilian writer (1912–2001)

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Leal and the second or paternal family name is Amado de Faria.

Jorge Amado
Amado in 1988
In office 5 February 1946 – 10 January 1948
Constituency	São Paulo
Born	Jorge Amado (1912-08-10)10 August 1912 Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil
Died	6 August 2001(2001-08-06) (aged 88) Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Political party	PCB (1932–1956)
Spouse
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)

Jorge Amado (Brazilian Portuguese:[ˈʒɔɦ.ʒj‿aˈma.du] 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, and having been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 7 times. His work reflects the image of a Mestiço

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Amado, Jorge

BORN: 1912, Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil

DIED: 2001, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

NATIONALITY: Brazilian

GENRE: Fiction, drama

MAJOR WORKS:
Cacao (1933)
The Beastly Land (1943)
Dona Flor extract Her Digit Husbands (1966)

Overview

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Works in Chronicle and Factual Context

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Gilberto Freyre, Anísio Teixeira and Jorge Amado, in 1961

Circle of friends and the 30s Movement

     Amidst the cultural effervescence of Rio de Janeiro, then the national capital, Jorge Amado developed friendships with various personalities from the worlds of politics and letters, including Raul Bopp, José Américo de Almeida, Gilberto Freyre, Carlos Lacerda, José Lins do Rego and Vinicius de Moraes.
      His involvement with the so-called 1930s Movement left a deep-run formative mark on his personality and instilled a lasting concern with Brazilian problems. Jorge Amado travelled up to Maceió especially to meet Graciliano Ramos. It was also during this period that the writer Rachel de Queiroz introduced him to the egalitarian ideals of communism.
      In 1934, with the publication of Sweat , his fiction took a foray into the urban reality of the decadent state capital of Salvador. Two years later, the result was Jubiabá, a novel whose main protagonist, Antônio Balduíno, was one of the first Negro heroes in Brazilian literature. At 23 years of age, Jorge Amado was gaining fame and projection, with his first international success. Pub