Brazilian novelist Jorge Amado died in Salvador, Brazil on August 6, 2001.

Considered one of Brazil’s great modernist writers, his body of work is still popular, decades after his death. His books have been translated into 49 languages and turned into numerous films, including Doña Flor. 

Jorge Amado
From Brazil’s 2012 Brazilian Literature set
Designed by Fernando De Castro Lopes

Jorgen Amado … novelist, journalist, lawyer—was born in 1912, the son of a cacao planter, in Ilheus, south of Salvador, the provincial capital of Gabriela, clavo y canela. His first novel, Cacao, was published when he was 19. It was an impassioned plea for social justice for the workers on Bahian cacao plantations; and his novels of the ’30s and ’40s would continue to dramatize class struggle. Not until the 1950s did he write his great literary comic novels—Gabriela, clavo y canela and Doña Flor y sus dos maridos—which take aim at the full spectrum of society even as they pay ebullient tribute to the region of his birth. One of the most renowned writers of the Latin American boom of the ’60s, Amado has been translated into more than 35 languages. A highly successful film version of Doña Flor was produced in Brazil in 1976. 
Jorge Amado | Penguin Random House Canada

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