Jorge Amado

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Jorge Amado
Amado in 1988
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 5 February 1946 – 10 January 1948
Constituency	São Paulo
Personal details
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	Zélia Gattai ​ (m. 1945)​
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)
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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.