Quick Facts About Jorge Amado
- Born
- August 10, 1912
- Died
- August 6, 2001
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Profession
- Writer
- Notable works
- Dona Flor e seus dais maridos
- Known for
- Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, Tieta, Captains of the Sands, Tereza Batista: Home from the Wars, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
- Spouse
- Zélia Gattai
About Jorge Amado
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria, known as Jorge Amado, 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, and having been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature at least seven times. 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.
Biography source:
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Awards & Honors
International Nonino Prize
International Stalin Prize for Peace
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
Meritorious Citizen of the Freedom and Social Justice João Mangabeira (CBJM)
Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry
Grand Officer of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword
honorary doctor of the University of Padua
honorary doctor of the University of Brasília
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honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University
honorary doctorate from University of Lyon-II
Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil)
Grand Cross of the Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil)
Lenin Peace Prize
Camões Prize
Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
Juca Pato Prize
