Jorge Amado
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Jorge Leal Amado de Faria, known as Jorge Amado, 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 4
Amado in 1988
Amado in 1935
Jorge Amado, 1972. National Archives of Brazil.
The Jorge Amado Foundation in Salvador da Bahia
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands is a novel by Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, published in 1966; it was translated into English by Harriet de Onís in 1969. The novel was adapted for the first time into t
Jorge Amado
…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 at least seven times. His work reflects the image of a Mestiço Brazil and is marked…
Cover of the first edition