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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 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 7 ...
This is a list of Brazilian writers, ... Frank Jorge (born 1966) Frederico Barbosa ... (born 1934) romance writer, chronicalist, poet, journalist; Juliana Cunha ...
Tieta (Portuguese: Tieta do Agreste, 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 of Tieta to the remote village of Santana do Agreste, 26 years after being beaten and expelled by her father in front of all the town's people.
Tent of Miracles (Portuguese: Tenda dos Milagres) is a Brazilian Modernist novel.It was written by Jorge Amado in 1967 and published the following year. It was later adapted to a 1977 Cinema Novo (Nouvelle Vague) film by director/screenplay writer Nelson Pereira dos Santos.
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Portuguese: Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos) is a novel by Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, published in 1966; it was translated into English by Harriet de Onís in 1969. [1] The novel was adapted for the first time into the 1976 film Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands.
The Violent Land (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 develop cacao plantations in the forests of the Bahia state of Brazil.
Sea of Death (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". The novel follows the lives of poor sailors around Bahia, and their relationship with the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, especially the sea goddess Iema
The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell (A Morte e a Morte de Quincas Berro d'Água) is a 1959 Brazilian modernist novella by Jorge Amado. It was first published in the Brazilian magazine Senhor . [ 1 ] In 2012, it was republished in English as The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray .