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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    "Prince of Itapoa", in the books of Jorge Amado which references the Coutinho family's land in Itapoa where Amado himself lived. Coutinho was born in...
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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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  • 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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    The Centro Universitário Jorge Amado (Jorge Amado University Center, often abbreviated as Unijorge) is a private institution founded in 1999 and located...
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    Carlos Magalhães Celso Furtado Fernanda Montenegro Joãosinho Trinta Jorge Amado José Mindlin José Sarney Nascimento Brito Nise da Silveira Pietro Maria...
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    writers. Major figures include novelists Machado de Assis, Guimarães Rosa, Jorge Amado, Clarice Lispector and Graciliano Ramos; poets such as João Cabral de...
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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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  • 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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    Carlos Magalhães Celso Furtado Fernanda Montenegro Joãosinho Trinta Jorge Amado José Mindlin José Sarney Nascimento Brito Nise da Silveira Pietro Maria...
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  • Kiss Me Goodbye (film) (category Films based on works by Jorge Amado)
    e Seus Dois Maridos in Portuguese), a 1976 Brazilian film, based on Jorge Amado's book of the same name. Field was nominated for a Golden Globe Award...
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  • Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (category Films based on works by Jorge Amado)
    directed by Bruno Barreto. Based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Jorge Amado, it takes place in 1940s Bahia and has Sônia Braga, José Wilker and Mauro...
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  • e canela Jorge Amado (Brazil) 1958 Los ríos profundos José María Arguedas (Peru) 1959 A Morte e a Morte de Quincas Berro d'Água Jorge Amado (Brazil) 1960...
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    to Deportivo Cali. Germán Aceros (1962) Buenaventura Ferreira (1986) Jorge Amado Nunes (1986) Bernardo Redín (1990) John Wilmar Pérez (1998) Juan Guillermo...
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  • The Violent Land (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
    (Portuguese: Terras do Sem Fim) is a Brazilian Modernist novel written by Jorge Amado in 1943 and published in English in 1945. It describes the battles to...
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    Alves (FCA) (Castro Alves College); Centro Universitário Jorge Amado (UNIJORGE) (Jorge Amado University Center); Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública...
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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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  • Tieta (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
    lit. "Tieta from Agreste") is a novel written by the Brazilian author Jorge Amado, published on August 17, 1977. Set in the 1970s, it narrates the return...
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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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  • The Bowels of Liberty (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
    da Liberdade) is a trilogy of Brazilian Modernist novels written by Jorge Amado in 1954. The trilogy comprises Bitter Times (Os ásperos tempos), Agony...
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    ► Lafayette Rodrigues Pereira ► Alfredo Pujol ► Otávio Mangabeira ► Jorge Amado ► Zélia Gattai ► Luiz Paulo Horta ► Antônio Torres 24 (Júlio Ribeiro):...
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  • a list of significant modernist writers: Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Jorge Amado (1912–2001) Mário de Andrade (1893–1945) Oswald de Andrade (1890–1954)...
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  • Red Field (category Novels by Jorge Amado)
    Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado. It has not been published in English. Jorge Amado published Red Field in 1946. In 1945, Brazil...
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