WRITER

Jorge Amado

1912 - 2001

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Jorge Amado (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈʒɔʁʒi aˈmadu] 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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jorge Amado is the 409th most popular writer (down from 359th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Brazil (down from 20th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Brazilian Writer.

Jorge Amado is most famous for his novels and short stories set in Bahia, Brazil.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jorge Amado ranks 409 out of 7,302. Before him are Ghalib, Graham Greene, Susan Sontag, Livius Andronicus, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., and Wilhelm Grimm. After him are W. B. Yeats, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Sándor Petőfi, Wu Cheng'en, and James Fenimore Cooper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Jorge Amado ranks 20. Before him are Clara Petacci, Alfredo Stroessner, Khalid of Saudi Arabia, János Kádár, Millvina Dean, and Carlo Ponti. After him are Gene Kelly, Konrad Emil Bloch, Alois Brunner, Chuck Jones, Ghazi of Iraq, and Heinrich Harrer. Among people deceased in 2001, Jorge Amado ranks 12. Before him are Josef Bican, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Don Bradman, Jack Lemmon, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Clifford Shull. After him are G. E. M. Anscombe, Christiaan Barnard, Sabiha Gökçen, Bill Hewlett, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, and Claude Shannon.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Jorge Amado ranks 23 out of 2,236. Before him are Rivellino (1946), Nelson Piquet (1952), Roberto Carlos (1973), Luiz Felipe Scolari (1948), Emerson Fittipaldi (1946), and Getúlio Vargas (1882). After him are Carlos Alberto Torres (1944), João Havelange (1916), Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927), Ronaldinho (1980), Romário (1966), and Michel Temer (1940).

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Among WRITERS In Brazil

Among writers born in Brazil, Jorge Amado ranks 2. Before him are Paulo Coelho (1947). After him are Vinicius de Moraes (1913), Reinaldo Arenas (1943), Machado de Assis (1839), Osvaldo Moles (1913), Chico Xavier (1910), Mário de Andrade (1893), Augusto Boal (1931), José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920), Carlos Marighella (1911), and Bernardo Guimarães (1825).

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