Personal Info
Jorge Amado
Writing
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 20…
Filmography
Movies
3 Obás de Xangô
as Self (archive footage)
Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi
as Self (archive footage)
Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
as Self (archive footage)
Dê Lembranças a Todos
as Self
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
as Self (archive footage)
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
as Self
Tieta of Agreste
as Ele Mesmo
Jorge Amado
as Self
Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei
as Self
