Jorge Amado (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈʒɔɦ.ʒj‿aˈma.du] 10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best-known...
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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sweat (novel) (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1934. It has yet to be translated into English. Sweat, Jorge Amado's third novel, was written in Rio de...
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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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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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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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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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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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Tereza Batista: Home from the Wars (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
by Jorge Amado in 1972 and was published in English in 1975, with a translation by Barbara Shelby. Tereza Batista: Home from the Wars is one of Jorge Amado's...
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Tieta (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
lit. "Tieta from Agreste") is a novel written by the Brazilian author Jorge Amado, published on August 17, 1977. Set in the 1970s, it narrates the return...
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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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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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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 Carrillo Fuentes (/fuˈɛntəs/; December 17, 1954 – July 7, 1997) was a Mexican drug lord. He seized control of the Juárez Cartel after assassinating...
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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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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (category Films based on works by Jorge Amado)
directed by Bruno Barreto. Based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Jorge Amado, it takes place in 1940s Bahia and has Sônia Braga, José Wilker and Mauro...
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Gabriela is a Brazilian telenovela created by Jorge Amado (written by Walcyr Carrasco) and starring Juliana Paes and Humberto Martins. It premiered on...
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Show 1988 – Salvador BA – The illustrated works of Jorge Amado, at the Fundação Casa de Jorge Amado 1988 – São Paulo SP - 15 Years of the Brazil-Japan...
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