Jorge Amado

  • Known for: Writer
  • Date of birth: 1912. August 10.
  • Place of birth: Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil

Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (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, notably Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1976. His...

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