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    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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    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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    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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    establishing her as a sex symbol. Braga returned to embody another Jorge Amado character, starring in the 1976 film Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands directed...
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  • Amado Carrillo Fuentes (/fuˈɛntəs/; December 17, 1956 – July 7, 1997) was a Mexican drug lord. He seized control of the Juárez Cartel after assassinating...
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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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  • Amado (born 1990), Portuguese football player Flávio Amado (born 1979), Angolan football player Jorge Amado (1912–2001), Brazilian writer Lauro Amadò...
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  • Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
    modernist novel by Jorge Amado, originally published in 1958 and later published in English in 1962. It is widely considered one of Amado's finest works. A...
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