Jorge Amado
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Jorge Amado 🇧🇷

Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (Known as "Jorge Amado")
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Born Aug 10, 1912 🇧🇷 Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil
Passed Away Aug 06, 2001 Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
Lifespan 88 years old
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"I am a storyteller, and nothing more."

Archival Overview

Foremost Brazilian novelist whose colorful, sensual chronicles of Afro-Bahian culture in Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands captivated the world.

Biographical Record

Jorge Amado (1912–2001) was a Brazilian modernist novelist from the cocoa-producing region of Bahia whose vibrant, joyful, and socially committed fiction made him Brazil's most widely translated author. Imprisoned and forced into exile during the Vargas dictatorship for his communist sympathies, Amado represented the Brazilian Communist Party in the Constituent Assembly in 1945, authoring the constitutional law guaranteeing religious freedom.

Amado achieved global acclaim with novels celebrating the Afro-Brazilian culture, sensual beauty, Candomblé spirituality, and resilient humanity of Salvador da Bahia. Classics like Captains of the Sands (1937), Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958), Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966), and Tieta were adapted into legendary international films and television telenovelas, enchanting millions.

Key Life Milestones

1937

Captains of the Sands Published

Published Capitães da Areia, detailing the lives of homeless street children in Salvador; copies were publicly burned by police.

1958

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

Published Gabriela, Cravo e Canela, inaugurating his richly sensual, comic period and winning every major Brazilian literary prize.

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Final Resting Place

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Ashes buried under a mango tree in his garden at Casa do Rio Vermelho
Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
GPS: -13.0139, -38.4917
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