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...
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Captains of the Sands (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
Sands (Portuguese: Capitães da Areia) is a Brazilian novel written by Jorge Amado in 1937. The novel tells of a gang of one hundred street children. Their...
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Dorival Caymmi (section Collaboration with Jorge Amado)
record. Caymmi was a lifelong friend of Bahian author Jorge Amado, and in 1945, he set one of Amado's politically driven poems to music to aid the senatorial...
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Ilhéus/Bahia–Jorge Amado Airport (IATA: IOS, ICAO: SBIL), is the airport serving Ilhéus, Brazil. Since March 12, 2002 it is named after the writer Jorge Amado de...
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Véra Clouzot (redirect from Vera Gibson-Amado)
ex-President of the United Nations' International Law Committee. Writer Jorge Amado was her second cousin. In 1941, Véra met French actor Léo Lapara [fr]...
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Jorge Amado Nunes Infrán (born 18 October 1961) is a Paraguayan football manager and former player. He played as a midfielder and has been a member of...
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The Centro Universitário Jorge Amado (Jorge Amado University Center, often abbreviated as Unijorge) is a private institution founded in 1999 and located...
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Amado (born 1990), Portuguese football player Flávio Amado (born 1979), Angolan football player Jorge Amado (1912–2001), Brazilian writer Lauro Amadò...
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The Discovery of America by the Turks (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1994 but not published in English until 2012. Amado tells how, in 1991, he was approached by an...
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Sea of Death (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
(Portuguese: Mar Morto) is a Brazilian Modernist novel written by Jorge Amado. Amado wrote the novel in response to his first arrest for "being a communist"...
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Amado Carrillo Fuentes (/fuˈɛntəs/; December 17, 1956 – July 7, 1997) was a Mexican drug lord. He seized control of the Juárez Cartel after assassinating...
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(Portuguese: Tocaia Grande) is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1984. The novel deals with the foundation of a community, Tocaia Grande...
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establishing her as a sex symbol. Braga returned to embody another Jorge Amado character, starring in the 1976 film Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands directed...
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The Bowels of Liberty (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
da Liberdade) is a trilogy of Brazilian Modernist novels written by Jorge Amado in 1954. The trilogy comprises Bitter Times (Os ásperos tempos), Agony...
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Cacau (novel) (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
Jorge Amado. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1933 and was his second novel, forming together with Suor the beginning of the development of Amado's project...
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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
modernist novel by Jorge Amado, originally published in 1958 and later published in English in 1962. It is widely considered one of Amado's finest works. A...
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The Golden Harvest (redirect from Sao Jorge dos Ilheus)
The Golden Harvest (Portuguese: São Jorge dos Ilhéus) is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado from 1942 to 1944, published in Portuguese...
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Red Field (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado. It has not been published in English. Jorge Amado published Red Field in 1946. In 1945, Brazil...
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The Country of Carnival (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
(Portuguese: O País do Carnaval) is a 1931 novel by Brazilian writer Jorge Amado. In this debut novel, the themes that would come to permeate the author's...
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Carlos Magalhães Celso Furtado Fernanda Montenegro Joãosinho Trinta Jorge Amado José Mindlin José Sarney Nascimento Brito Nise da Silveira Pietro Maria...
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The Violent Land (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
(Portuguese: Terras do Sem Fim) is a Brazilian Modernist novel written by Jorge Amado in 1943 and published in English in 1945. It describes the battles to...
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Shepherds of the Night (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
(Portuguese: Os Pastores da Noite) is a Brazilian novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1964 and published in English in 1967. Shepherds of the Night is really...
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Jubiabá (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
pronunciation: [ʒubjaˈba]) is a Brazilian modernist novel written by Jorge Amado in 1935. It earned Amado an international reputation, being hailed by Albert Camus...
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writers. Major figures include novelists Machado de Assis, Guimarães Rosa, Jorge Amado, Clarice Lispector and Graciliano Ramos; poets such as João Cabral de...
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to Deportivo Cali. Germán Aceros (1962) Buenaventura Ferreira (1986) Jorge Amado Nunes (1986) Bernardo Redín (1990) John Wilmar Pérez (1998) Juan Guillermo...
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Kiss Me Goodbye (film) (category Films based on works by Jorge Amado)
e Seus Dois Maridos in Portuguese), a 1976 Brazilian film, based on Jorge Amado's book of the same name. Field was nominated for a Golden Globe Award...
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as a librarian. Her first novel, The Squatters (1955) won praise from Jorge Amado. It was published in the Soviet Union, selling 200,000 copies. A Name...
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The War of the Saints (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
Saints (Portuguese: O Sumiço da Santa) is a Brazilian Modernist novel by Jorge Amado first published in 1988. An English translation by Gregory Rabassa appeared...
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Carlos Magalhães Celso Furtado Fernanda Montenegro Joãosinho Trinta Jorge Amado José Mindlin José Sarney Nascimento Brito Nise da Silveira Pietro Maria...
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e canela Jorge Amado (Brazil) 1958 Los ríos profundos José María Arguedas (Peru) 1959 A Morte e a Morte de Quincas Berro d'Água Jorge Amado (Brazil) 1960...
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