Jorge Amado

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 his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, including ''Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands'' in 1976. 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.

He occupied the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1961 until his death in 2001. He won the 1984 International Nonino Prize in Italy. He also was Federal Deputy for São Paulo as a member of the Brazilian Communist Party between 1947 and 1951. Provided by Wikipedia
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Capitanes de la arena
Filosofía y Humanidades / Psicología
by Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001
Published 1994
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Mar muerto
Filosofía y Humanidades / Psicología
by Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001
Published 1972
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Teresa Batista cansada de guerra
Filosofía y Humanidades / Psicología
by Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001
Published 1980
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Teresa Batista cansada de guerra
Filosofía y Humanidades / Psicología
by Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001
Published 1975
Book
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by Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001
Published 1978
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by Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001.
Published 1961
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Cacao
Biblioteca Mayor
by Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001.
Published 1993
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La luz en el túnel
Biblioteca Mayor
by Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001.
Published 1957
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by Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001
Published 1978
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Jubiabá
Filosofía y Humanidades / Psicología
by Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001
Published 1983
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Los subterráneos de la libertad
Filosofía y Humanidades / Psicología
by Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001
Published 1957
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Jubiabá : romance
Escuela Superior de Comercio Manuel Belgrano
by Amado, Jorge 1912-2001
Published 1987
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by Amado, Jorge 1912-2001
Published 1987
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by Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001.
Published 1958
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by Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001.
Published 1969
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by Amado, Jorge A.
Published 1987
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Jubiabá
Filosofía y Humanidades / Psicología
by Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001
Published 1959
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Mar muerto
Filosofía y Humanidades / Psicología
by Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001
Published 1958
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Jubiabá
Filosofía y Humanidades / Psicología
by Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001
Published 1937
Book
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