Biography
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (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, notably Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1976. 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.
He occupied the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1961 until his death in 2001. He won the 1984 International Nonino Prize in Italy. He also was Federal Deputy for São Paulo as a member of the Brazilian Communist Party between 1947 and 1951.
Amado was born on Saturday, 10 August 1912, on a farm near the inland city of Itabuna, in the south of the Brazilian state of Bahia. He was the eldest of four sons of João Amado de Faria and D. Eulália Leal. The farm was located in the village of Ferradas, which, though today is a district of Itabuna, was at the time administered by the coastal city of Ilhéus. For this reason he considered himself a citizen of Ilhéus. From his exposure to the large cocoa plantations of the area, Amado knew the misery and the struggles of the people working the land and living in almost enslaved conditions. This was to be a theme present in several of his works (for example, The Violent Land of 1944).
As a result of a smallpox epidemic, his family moved to Ilhéus when he was one year old, and he spent his childhood there. He attended high school in Salvador, the capital of the state. By the age of 14 Amado had begun to collaborate with several magazines and took part in literary life, as one of the founders of the Modernist "Rebels' Academy".
He was the cousin of Brazilian lawyer, writer, journalist and politician Gilberto Amado, and of Brazilian actress and screenwriter Véra Clouzot.
Amado published his first novel, The Country of Carnival, in 1931, at age 18. He married Matilde Garcia Rosa and had a daughter, Lila, in 1933. The same year he published his second novel, Cacau, which increased his popularity.
He studied law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Faculty of Law but never became a practising lawyer. His leftist activities made his life difficult under the dictatorial regime of Getúlio Vargas. In 1935 he was arrested for the first time, and two years later his books were publicly burned. His works were banned from Portugal, but in the rest of Europe he gained great popularity with the publication of Jubiabá in France. The book received enthusiastic reviews, including that of Nobel prize Award winner Albert Camus.
In the early 1940s, Amado edited a literary supplement for the Nazi-funded political newspaper "Meio-Dia". Being a communist militant, from 1941 to 1942 Amado was compelled to go into exile to Argentina and Uruguay. When he returned to Brazil he separated from Matilde Garcia Rosa. In 1945 he was elected to the National Constituent Assembly, as a representative of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) (he received more votes than any other candidate in the state of São Paulo). He signed a law granting freedom of religious faith. ...
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Filmography
all 49
Movies 38
Writer 18
self 16
TV Shows 11
Creator 1
Screenplay 1
Xuxa, O Documentário (2023)
Doña flor y sus dos maridos (2019)
Dê Lembranças a Todos (2018)
Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos (2017)
Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos - O Filme (2015)
The Duel: A Story Where Truth Is Mere Detail (2014)
The Miracle of the Birds (2012)
Gabriela (2012)
Captains of the Sands (2011)
The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell (2010)
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth (2003)
Pastores da Noite (2002)
Porto dos Milagres (2001)
Coralito y sus dos maridos (1999)
Fallen Angels' Paradise (1999)
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds (1998)
Dona Flor and Her 2 Husbands (1998)
Dona Flor e Seus 2 Maridos (1998)
O Velho - A História de Luiz Carlos Prestes (1997)
Tieta of Agreste (1996)
Jorge Amado (1996)
O Capeta Carybé (1996)
Aimé Césaire, Une voix pour l'histoire (1995)
Zona+ (1994)
Josué de Castro, Cidadão do Mundo (1994)
Looking Back at You (1993)
Tieta (1989)
Jorge Amado (1989)
Jubiabá (1987)
Tenda dos Milagres (1985)
Gabriela (1983)
Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
O Homem de Areia (1982)
Glauber Rocha: Morto/Vivo (1981)
Jorge Amado no Cinema (1979)
Tent of Miracles (1977)
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976)
Bahia (1976)
Apostrophes (1975)
Bahia de Todos os Santos (1974)
Na Casa de Rio Vermelho (1974)
The Sandpit Generals (1972)
Le Grand Échiquier (1972)
Bahia, For Example (1969)
Seara Vermelha (1964)
The Wind Rose (1957)
Estrela da Manhã (1950)
Vendaval Maravilhoso (1949)
Terra Violenta (1949)
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1912-08-10
Deathday2001-08-06 (88 years old)
Birth PlaceItabuna, Brazil
Religionatheism
RelationshipsZélia Gattai (1945-01-01 - 2001-08-06)
SiblingsJames Amado
CitizenshipsBrazil
ResidencesSalvador, Brazil
Awardshonorary doctor of the University of Brasília, honorary doctor of the University of Padua, Grand Officer of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry, Meritorious Citizen of the Freedom and Social Justice João Mangabeira (CBJM), Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Ordem do Mérito Cultural, Camões Prize, Lenin Peace Prize, International Stalin Prize for Peace, International Nonino Prize, Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
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