Jorge Amado (10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, with...
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Véra Clouzot (redirect from Vera Gibson-Amado)
ex-President of the United Nations' International Law Committee. Writer Jorge Amado was her second cousin. In 1941, Véra met French actor Léo Lapara [fr]...
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Dorival Caymmi (section Collaboration with Jorge Amado)
record. Caymmi was a lifelong friend of Bahian author Jorge Amado, and in 1945, he set one of Amado's politically driven poems to music to aid the senatorial...
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Ilhéus/Bahia–Jorge Amado Airport (IATA: IOS, ICAO: SBIL), is the airport serving Ilhéus, Brazil. Since March 12, 2002 it is named after the writer Jorge Amado de...
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Jorge Amado Nunes Infrán (born 18 October 1961) is a Paraguayan football manager and former player. He played as a midfielder and has been a member of...
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(Portuguese: Tocaia Grande) is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1984. The novel deals with the foundation of a community, Tocaia Grande...
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Captains of the Sands (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
Sands (Portuguese: Capitães da Areia) is a Brazilian novel written by Jorge Amado in 1937. The novel tells of a gang of one hundred street children. Their...
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Sea of Death (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
(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"...
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Cacau (novel) (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
Jorge Amado. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1933 and was his second novel, forming together with Suor the beginning of the development of Amado's project...
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The Discovery of America by the Turks (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1994 but not published in English until 2012. Amado tells how, in 1991, he was approached by an...
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