Jorge Amado

Brazilian writer (1912-2001)

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Lived 1912–2001, aged 89Brazil

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Brazil rank#34
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Wikipedia
68 languages
Cross-language footprint
Rank in Brazil
#34
Writers
Era
1912–2001
Aged 89

Summary

Updated 2026-05-29

Brazilian modernist whose novels got translated into 49 languages and turned into films like Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands. Seven Nobel Prize nominations never converted, but his portrayals of a messy, colorful Brazil made him the country's most globally visible writer.

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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 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 by religious syncretism. He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences.

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