JORGE AMADO

Jorge Amado de Faria was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school.

He was the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, his extensive work having been translated into some 30 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and her Two Husbands, (in Portuguese,Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos) in 1978. 

His work dealt largely with the poor urban black and mulatto communities of Bahia.            

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