Jorge Leal Amado de Faria was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school.
28 Facts About Jorge Amado
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Jorge Amado 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.
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Jorge Amado's work reflects the image of a Mestico Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism.
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Jorge Amado depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences.
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Jorge Amado occupied the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1961 until his death in 2001.
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Jorge Amado won the 1984 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
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Jorge Amado was Federal Deputy for Sao Paulo as a member of the Brazilian Communist Party between 1947 and 1951.
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Jorge Amado was the eldest of four sons of Joao Amado de Faria and D Eulalia Leal.
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From his exposure to the large cocoa plantations of the area, Jorge Amado knew the misery and the struggles of the people working the land and living in almost enslaved conditions.
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Jorge Amado attended high school in Salvador, the capital of the state.
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Jorge Amado was the cousin of Brazilian lawyer, writer, journalist and politician Gilberto Amado, and of Brazilian actress and screenwriter Vera Clouzot.
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Jorge Amado published his first novel, The Country of Carnival, in 1931, at age 18.
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Jorge Amado married Matilde Garcia Rosa and had a daughter, Lila, in 1933.
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Jorge Amado studied law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Faculty of Law but never became a practising lawyer.
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Jorge Amado's works were banned from Portugal, but in the rest of Europe he gained great popularity with the publication of Jubiaba in France.
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Jorge Amado signed a law granting freedom of religious faith.
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Jorge Amado remarried in 1945, to the writer Zelia Gattai.
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Jorge Amado chose exile , this time in France, where he remained until he was expelled in 1950.
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Jorge Amado travelled to the Soviet Union, winning the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951.
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On his return to Brazil in 1954, Jorge Amado abandoned active political life, leaving the Communist Party one year later.
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Jorge Amado abandoned, in part, the realism and the social themes of his early works, producing a series of novels focusing mainly on feminine characters, devoted to a kind of smiling celebration of the traditions and the beauties of Bahia.
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Jorge Amado made the Academy the setting for one of his novels, Pen, Sword, Camisole.
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Jorge Amado received the title of Doctor honoris causa from several universities in Brazil, Portugal, Italy, Israel and France, as well as other honors in almost every South American country, including Oba de Xango of the Candomble, the traditional Afro-Brazilian religion of Bahia.
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Jorge Amado was finally removed from the French Government blacklist in 1965 following the intervention of the then Minister of Culture, Andre Malraux.
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Jorge Amado's books have been translated into 49 languages in 55 countries, and adapted into films, theatrical works and TV programs.
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In 1987, the House of Jorge Amado Foundation was created in Salvador.
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Jorge Amado died on Monday, 6 August 2001, at 7:30 PM.
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Jorge Amado's ashes were spread in the garden of his house four days later.