Jorge Amado is read about 636 times a day, in 68 languages.
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Something wrong?The Brazilian novelist whose Bahia - sensual, syncretic, alive with street vendors and lovers - became the country's literary face to the world. Seven Nobel nominations, translations in 49 languages, and a breezy optimism that never looked away from the country's chasms.
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About this person
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria was born on 10 August 1912 and wrote in the modernist tradition, but his Brazil was less cerebral experiment than lived portrait: mixed-race, religiously layered, joyful and unequal in the same breath. The novels traveled - 49 languages, film adaptations like "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands" in 1976 - and made him the most widely read Brazilian writer of his era. Between 1947 and 1951 he served as a Federal Deputy for São Paulo under the Brazilian Communist Party banner, politics and fiction running in parallel. He took seat 23 at the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1961 and held it for four decades, winning Italy's International Nonino Prize in 1984. He died on 6 August 2001, four days before what would have been his 89th birthday.
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