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	Jorge Amado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jorge Amado de Faria (August 10, 1912 – August 6, 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school.
		Amado was born in a fazenda ("farm") in the inland of the city of Itabuna, in the southern part of the Brazilian state of Bahia, son of João Amado de Faria and D. Eulália Leal.
		Being a communist militant, Amado from 1941 to 1942 was compelled to exile in Argentina and Uruguay.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jorge_Amado (804 words)

	::: » Fundação Casa de Jorge Amado « :::
		Jorge Amado was born on August 10, 1912, at the Auricídia farm in the Ferradas district of Itabuna, a city in southern Bahia.
		Jorge Amado drafted the law that guarantees the right to freedom of worship that is still in force today.
		Jorge Amado's literary works have been adapted to the screen, stage and television countless times, and are even the theme of Carnival parades throughout Brazil.
	www.fundacaojorgeamado.com.br /ing/jorge_biografia.htm (517 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Jorge Amado
		Jorge Amado is considered Brazil's most important novelist of the 20th century.
		His writings explored social injustices in Brazilian society, yet within a framework of degradation and poverty he managed to convey what he saw as the unexpected joys and beauty in life.
		Amado's work has been translated into more than 30 languages.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461526994/Jorge_Amado.html (53 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| Obituary: Jorge Amado
		Jorge Amado, who has died aged 88, was the grand old man of Brazilian literature.
		Amado's solution to the problem of racism - that whites and fls should simply go to bed together - similarly failed to address the fact that a centuries-old history of miscegenation, while contributing much to the myth of a Brazilian "racial democracy", has not in any way diminished the country's profoundly racist structures.
		The importance of Amado the novelist as a national institution, a cultural ambassador, is exceptional for an overwhelmingly non-literate society.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,534391,00.html (1185 words)

	obitpage.com :: great obits archive :: A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Amado felt ill Monday afternoon and was admitted to the Alianca Hospital in the city 800 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro, a spokesman said.
		Amado was in and out jail on political charges for a decade, and Vargas ordered 1,700 copies of his first six novels burned in the main plaza of Salvador.
		Amado's next big hit was the 1966 novel Dona Flor and her Two Husbands, the story of a remarried widow whose philandering first husband, a gambler and drinker, materializes for beyond-the-grave sexual romps.
	www.obitpage.com /obits/a/amado_jorge.html (624 words)

	FileRoom.org - Jorge Amado, Brazilian Communist writer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Amado escaped to Uraguay and Argentina, where he lived until 1942, when the ban on Amado's work was lifted.
		When the Brazilian government asked Amado to submit all of his original manuscripts for prior censorships, he refused and asserted that he would prefer to publish outside of Brazil than kneel to the censor.
		Amado achieved international notoriety; his works were printed in 50 languages; in Brazil, he is national icon.
	www.thefileroom.org /documents/dyn/DisplayCase.cfm/id/791 (217 words)

	Alibris: Jorge Amado
		Amado's novel tells the story of the life of a mulatto man named Pedro Archanjo and the way that, after his death, he is relentlessly commercialized.
		Amado's somewhat Rabelaisian novel, the story of a woman forced into prostitution because of poverty and oppression, is another in his series of fictions that show the effects of social inequities on the common folk of Bahia, Brazil.
		Amado's fable is about a 50-year-old man who leaves a conventional middle-class life to live precariously on the streets with whores and lowlifes.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Amado,Jorge (1006 words)

	Brazil - BRAZZIL - Jorge Amado's darker side - Brazilian Literature - Books & Authors - April 1998
		Amado was born on a cocoa plantation farm on August 10, 1912 at the then recently founded town named Itabuna, in Bahia.
		Jorge Amado to leave São Paulo and I accused him of being a cheap spy for the Nazis, as former eminent editor of Meio Dia.
		In 1945, Amado was elected federal deputy by the Communist Party and published Vida de Luís Carlos Prestes, o Cavaleiro da Esperança (Life of Luís Carlos Prestes, the Horseman of Hope) an eulogy of this southern communist leader and member of the Comintern.
	www.brazzil.com /p26apr98.htm (4897 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Brazil's top novelist Amado dies
		Amado, whose works have been translated into 48 languages and sold more than 20 million copies, died of a heart attack in the north-eastern city of Salvador, the setting for many of his best-loved novels.
		Jorge Amado was born on 10 August 1912 in the south of Bahia, the palm-fringed state that was once the hub of Brazil's trade in African slaves.
		Amado's remains are to be cremated on Tuesday and his ashes scattered in his garden in Salvador.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1477183.stm (523 words)

	Where Jorge Amado learned about love
		Jorge Amado can take credit for many things, including Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands and a string of other novels that have been translated into more than 40 languages.
		Most of Amado's novels are set in and around Salvador, capital of the Northeastern state of Bahia and former capital--until 1763--of all Brazil.
		Many of them go straight to the Fundação Casa de Jorge Amado, an arts center founded in 1987 that maintains a large collection of materials on the author and hosts literary and cultural events in a spacious building on the district's main thoroughfare.
	www.iadb.org /exr/IDB/stories/1999/eng/e699s8.htm (1187 words)

	Jorge Amado: Bahia's Great Novelist (Brazilian Fiction) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Already known to followers of Amado's fiction, Tocaia Grande is here depicted in the days before its elevation to county seat and its change of name to Irisopolis.
		These are the rawer days of its original settlement some 20 years after the Brazilian emancipation of slaves when it was nothing more than a dump with a store and a cluster of fugitives, whores, and stragglers.
		Amado's talent for showing the beauty and glory in the mundane is unmatched.
	www.thebraziliansound.com /books/amado.htm (748 words)

	Brazil - Brazzil Magazine - The Death and the Death of the Patriarch
		Jorge Amado was born on August 10, 1912 on a cocoa farm called Auricídia in the city of Ferradas, Bahia state, but two years later his parents moved to Ilhéus and then eight years after that to Salvador—both also in Bahia.
		Amado didn’t like to talk about death and old age and was not happy to commemorate his birthdays in the later years.
		Carlos Guilherme Mota, in 1974, accused Amado of being repetitive.
	www.brazzil.com /content/view/6743/39 (6634 words)

	Maria Garris
		Bahia to cocoa planter Joao Amado de Faria and Eulalia Leal Amado in 1912.
		The impact that Jorge Amado has had on his readers has been widespread, and is guaranteed to live on long after his death.
		Most importantly, Jorge Amado has led the way to helping people from around the world to understand what it means to be truly Brazilian.
	clam.rutgers.edu /~mgarris/amado.html (501 words)

	Jorge Amado -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Novelist Jorge Amado was among the most translated and widely read Brazilian authors of the 20th century.
		It was used as a setting by Jorge Amado in his novels dealing with the...
		The Spanish lyric poet Jorge Guillén was a member of the Generation of 1927, a group of poets who combined the Spanish lyric tradition with modernism.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9316148 (711 words)

	AllRefer.com - Jorge Amado (Latin American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Jorge Amado[zhOr´zhi umA´doo] Pronunciation Key, 1912–2001, Brazilian novelist.
		Amado's works deal largely with the poor urban fl and mulatto communities of Bahia.
		Although sometimes criticized for stereotyped female characterizations and for romanticizing poverty, Amado is acclaimed for his portrayal of ordinary Brazilians and is the most widely read Brazilian novelist of the 20th cent.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Amado-Jo.html (305 words)

	'Dona Flor' novelist Amado dead :: Hollywood.com
		Amado was Brazil's best-selling author both at home and across the world, with 20 million volumes sold worldwide in nearly 50 languages.
		Amado's work was well known to Brazilians of all classes, thanks to adaptations of his novels for television soap operas and films, including Tieta do Agreste, Gabriela, and Dona Flor and her Two Husbands.
		"Jorge Amado was one of the greatest writers of our time who made the Brazilian myth known on all five continents in all modern languages," Vargas Llosa told.
	www.hollywood.com /news/detail/id/473230 (544 words)

	Amado, Jorge - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Amado, Jorge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His first novel, O país do carnaval/The Country of the Carnival (1932), follows a youthful member of the intelligentsia seeking political answers in the wake of the revolution of 1930.
		Amado's next few novels outlined his personal manifesto and highlighted the cause of various exploited groups in society.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Amado,+Jorge (213 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Showdown, by Jorge Amado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		...Amado is certainly not alone in taking this view of his ridiculously overregulated, still-corporatist country...
		...Above all, color-blind: Amado exalts miscegenation, the fusion of Brazil's Indian, European, and African (preGuns and Barbed Wire: A Child Survives the Holocaust by Thomas Geve "The drawings have a helpless charm...
		...In the most profound sense, Amado is a cultural nationalist, one whose literary images pay constant homage to a culture and a nation in the process of gestation...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V85I5P69-1.htm (1868 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- Fundação Jorge Amado
		This is the Web site for the Fundação Jorge Amado, established to honour and commemorate the great Brazilian writer Jorge Amado (1912-2001) and his work, to support literary creation and to foster literary research.
		Amado's works have been translated into forty-eight languages and his novels 'Dona Flor e seus dois maridos' ('Dona Flor and her Two Husbands') and 'Terras do sem fin' ('The Violent Land') earned him nominations for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
		The life and works of Amado's wife and fellow writer, Zélia Gattai, are also explored on the site and a small gallery of photographs of Amado, taken by Gattai, may be viewed here.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=13551 (276 words)

	Amado, Jorge on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Amado y su conflictiva relación con Cuba.(Jorge Amado, escritor)(TT: Amado and his relationship with Cuba.)(TA: Jorge Amado, author)(Artículo Breve)
		JORGE UZON Agence France Presse 11-11-2001 The ball eludes Mexico's Manuel Vidrio (L), Gerardo Torrado (R) and Amado Guevara (C) of Honduras during their Korea-Japan 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying match 11 November 2001 at Aztec Stadium in Mexico City.
		Amado, clavo y canela.(Jorge Amado, escritor)(TT: Amado, nail and cinnamon.)(TA: Jorge Amado, writer)(Artículo Breve)(Obituario)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/amado-j1o.asp (559 words)

	RCF - Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Timed as a memorial to Jorge Amado’s death in 2001, these two novels are new English editions of Tent of Miracles and Tieta.
		The novels were written in 1969 and 1977 respectively, and they represent the second phase of Amado’s literary career, the phase of Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, when he shifted from more overtly political narrative to writing that was full of excess, sensual delight, and the richness of everyday life.
		Also, while Tieta is ostensibly the protagonist of this novel, Amado once again fills the text with a variety of characters (not the least of which is the author himself), who take on key roles in the narrative.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/bookreviews/04_1/amado.html (583 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Brazil says goodbye to revered novelist
		Thousands of mourners streamed past the flower-strewn coffin of the Brazilian writer Jorge Amado on Tuesday, saying their goodbyes to the man known as "the emperor of Salvador".
		Amado's remains were cremated and his ashes would be scattered under a mango tree in his garden in Salvador, said his widow, author Zelia Gattai.
		Amado was also an oba, a high official in a temple of Candomble, an African-based animist religion that is widely practiced in Bahia.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/americas/1479698.stm (301 words)

	Tieta of Agreste - Carlos Diegues - Director of Tieta of Agreste
		Amado has always said that he likes my films.
		I think this is because they have a lot in common with Amado's world, marked by a type of drama which focuses more on characters than on plot and also because they involve the search for the Brazilian soul.
		I consider Tieta to be Jorge Amado's most feminist book, in that all the action is recounted from the viewpoint of the female characters.
	www.skylight.com.br /tieta/ti-500.htm (636 words)

	The Brazilianist Magazine
		Born in 1912 on a cocoa plantation in the northeastern state of Bahia, Jorge Amado published his first novel at age 19, in 1932.
		Even in the computer era, the stocky, white-mustached author did most of his writing on a battered typewriter at his two homes in Salvador, where he lived surrounded by monkeys, birds and statues of deities of Candomble, a spirit religion brought to Brazil by African slaves.
		Jorge Amado died early this August, at 88, and he is survived by his wife Zélia Gatai - also a Brazilian best-seller author - and two children, João Jorge and Priscilla.
	www.brazilianist.com /18summer01/18jorgeamado.html (547 words)

	Amazon.com: Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands: A Moral and Amorous Tale: Books: Jorge Amado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Apparently Amado was the son of cacao plantation owners, but when he wrote his first works in the 20s, exposing land owners for their cruelty to workers, he was more or less disowned.
		Amado's books are filled with colorful details that enhance the accurate picture he paints of the Brazilian culture.
		Jorge Amado is the exact antithesis of all that, and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands shows the full span of Amado's remarkable mind.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/038075469X?v=glance (1820 words)

	Casa de Jorge Amado \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Salvador \| Frommers.com
		Brazil's most beloved writer, Jorge Amado was long on the short list of the Nobel committee, until he died in 2001 at the age of 93.
		Released from prison in 1936, Amado published a new novel, which was seized by authorities and burned in the streets of Salvador.
		In 1945 Amado was elected as a federal deputy, only to see his Communist Party of Brazil outlawed and he himself forced into exile in Prague.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/salvador/A31019.html (327 words)

	Bahia - The Land of Jorge Amado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jorge Amado de Faria was born in 1912 in the city of Itabuna, district of Ferradas in Bahia.
		Amado died at the age of 88 years old on August 6, 2001.
		In the picture, the house of Jorge Amado in Pelorinho in Salvador de Bahia.
	www.aifo.it /english/resources/online/exhibitions/bahia/bahia1.htm (163 words)

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