Jorge Amado (1912–2001)
Author of Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
About the Author
Jorge Amado, August 10, 1912 - August 6, 2001 Elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Jorge Amado possesses a talent for storytelling as well as a deep concern for social and economic justice. He was born in Bahia, Brazil, in 1912. Some critics claim that his early works suffer from his show more politics. Others commonly express reservations concerning Amado's sentimentality and erotico-mythic stereotyping. In the works represented in English translation, his literary merits prevail. The Violent Land (1942) chronicles the development of Brazilian territory and struggles for its resources, memorializing the deeds of those who built the country. Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958), which achieved critical and popular success in both Brazil and the United States, tells a sensual love story of a Syrian bar owner and his beautiful cook. Home Is the Sailor (1962) introduces Captain Vasco Moscoso de Aragao, a comic figure in the tradition of Don Quixote. In Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966), Amado introduced the folk culture of shamans and Yorube gods. The protagonists of Shepherds of the Night (1964) are Bahia's poor. (Bowker Author Biography) Jorge Amado has been called the greatest twentieth-century Brazilian novelist. He was born in 1912 in Ilheus, in the northeastern-most state of Bahai. This area serves as the backdrop for most of Amado's work, which reflects a deep appreciation of the Brazilian essence. Amado's works have made him a national figure in Brazil. Amado's early novels were shaped by a belief in Marxism, and relate the sufferings of humble fishermen and cocoa plantation workers. By the 1950s, he had turned his attention to the plight of middle-class Bahains. This more jovial approach brought him worldwide acclaim, and his keen comic sense and appreciation of the common man have drawn comparisons to the novels of Charles Dickens. Music, cuisine, and passion figure prominently in Amado's literary output. Amado's works have been translated from Portuguese into more than forty languages, have sold over fifty million copies worldwide, and have been reworked for film, television, and stage. His portraits of commanding female characters, including Gabriela from Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, and Dona Flor from Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, have been adapted to the screen, and actress Sonia Braga earned her initial success in these roles. Other titles include The Sand Captains; Memory of a Child; The War of the Saints; and Home Is the Sailor. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Jorge Amado
La cucina di Bahia, ovvero Il libro di cucina di Pedro Archanjo e Le merende di dona Flor (1994) 16 copies
Los coroneles 11 copies
Jorge Amado - Literatura comentada 3 copies
Rua Alagoinhas 33, Rio Vermelho: A casa de Zelia e Jorge Amado (Casa de palavras) (Portuguese Edition) (1999) 3 copies
Farda Fardão camisola de dormir 2 copies
Boa Noite, Querido Coelhinho 2 copies
Boa Noite, Querida Panda 2 copies
O cavaleiro da esperança 2 copies
Romanzi - Volume I 2 copies
Bahia Colorida 1 copy
Werkstatt der Wunder Roman 1 copy
Suor, 45ª edição 1 copy
Tieta do Agreste, 19ª edição 1 copy
LITERATURA BRASILEIRA 1 copy
Fotobiografia 1 copy
Cacau 1 copy
Seara Vermelha 1 copy
Kindheit in Grapiuna 1 copy
Conversa com Fuanga Félé,(...) Mario de Andrade, chefe da luta de Angola - Tempo Brasileiro, 1 1 copy
miecio tati rio dos fogados 1 copy
os ásperos tempos I 1 copy
o amor de soldado 1 copy
O gato malhado e a Andorinha 1 copy
o gato malhado 1 copy
perminio asfora 1 copy
DEN BLODDRÄNKTA JORDEN 1 copy
Titel aus Agreste 1 copy
Três Contos Ilustrados - De Como o Mulato Porciúncula Descarregou Seu Defunto; O Milagre dos Pássaros; As Mortes e o… (1983) 1 copy
Kapitän auf großer Fahrt oder Die vollständige Wahrheit über die umstrittenen Abenteuer des Kapitäns Vasco Moscoso… (1961) 1 copy
Obra conjunta 1 copy
Amado Jorge 1 copy
Obras de Jorge Amado. 4, Jubiaba — Author — 1 copy
Země zlatých plodů 1 copy
Viva o Povo Brasileiro 1 copy
Jorge Amado 1 copy
Tendas dos milagres 1 copy
Mucizeler Dükkanı 1 copy
Alınteri 1 copy
Jubiabá — Author — 1 copy
רועי-לילה 1 copy
A B C de Castro Alves 1 copy
Bahia Boa Terra Bahia 1 copy
Associated Works
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Contributor — 12 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Amado, Jorge
- Legal name
- Amado de Faria, Jorge
- Other names
- AMADO DE FARIA, Jorge
AMADO, Jorge - Birthdate
- 1912-08-10
- Date of death
- 2001-08-06
- Burial location
- Cremated, Ashes in his garden
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Birthplace
- Itabuna, Brazil
- Place of death
- Salvador, Brazil
- Places of residence
- Itabuna, Brazil
Ilhéus, Brazil
France
Czechoslovakia - Occupations
- politician
writer - Relationships
- Gattai, Zelia (wife)
- Organizations
- Brazilian Academy of Letters
- Awards and honors
- Prémio Camões (1994)
- Short biography
- Blurb: Jorge Amado, geboren in 1912, wordt beschouwd als de grootste schrijver in Brazilië. Met meer dan 8 miljoen exemplaren van zijn boeken in druk is hij de spreekbuis en getuige van zijn geliefde volk. Hij weet zowel hun armoede als hun strijd, hun hartstochten en hun dromen op onnavolgbare wijze op te roepen. Amper 19 jaar oud publiceerde Amado zijn eerste werk en reeds op 23-jarige leeftijd was hij een der succesvolste auteurs van Zuid-Amerika. De tientallen romans die deze eminente volksverteller heeft gecreëerd, waaronder de internationale bestsellers Gabriele, Dona Flore en haar twee echtgenoten, Vlinders van de nacht en Tereza Batista, zijn vertaald in 45 talen en gepubliceerd in 60 landen. Tocaia Grande, in drie haar tijd geschreven, is de meest gedurfde en meest luisterrijke roman uit Amado’s roemrijke schrijversloopbaan. Deze wonderlijke, onvergetelijke geschiedenis van een werkelijk unieke stad, waarin opnieuw de zelfkant van de Braziliaanse samenleving centraal staat, is wederom onmiddelijk een wereldwijde bestseller geworden (flaptekst).
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But when a public outcry demands the capture of the ‘little criminals’, the fate of these children becomes a poignant, intensely moving drama of love and freedom in a shackled land. Captains of the Sands captures the rich culture, vivid emotions, and wild landscape of Bahia with penetrating authenticity and brilliantly displays the genius of Brazil’s most acclaimed author.
Really enjoyed this book, more than I thought I would. Amado doesn’t go in for the straight poor but good angle, but seems to truthfully try and reveal the life of all of Bahia.
He portrays the life of the boys as a series of adventures, which fall on both sides of the law but ultimately which they participate in to survive, while each one dreams of escape, or of a maternal love they have never known.
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