Jorge Amado
1912 – 2001 · aged 89
Brazilian writer (1912–2001)
- Born
- 10 Aug 1912 · Itabuna
- Died
- 6 Aug 2001 · Salvador
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 10 Aug 1912BornBorn in Itabuna
- 1946 – 1948RoleFederal deputy of São Paulo
- 1969AwardJuca Pato Prize
- 1980AwardGrand Officer of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword
- 1984AwardInternational Nonino Prize
- 1986AwardGrand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry
- 1987AwardHonorary doctorate from University of Lyon-II
- 1990AwardPrix mondial Cino Del Duca
- 1994AwardCamões Prize
- 1995AwardCommander of the Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil)
- 1998AwardHonorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University
- 6 Aug 2001DiedDied in Salvador
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1912 – 2001).
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
Biography
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria ( ZHOR-zhee; Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈʒɔʁʒi aˈmadu]; 10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001), known as Jorge Amado, was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, including Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1976, and having been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature at least seven times. His work reflects the image of a Mestiço Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences.
He occupied the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1961 until his death in 2001. He won the 1984 International Nonino Prize in Italy. He also was Federal Deputy for São Paulo as a member of the Brazilian Communist Party between 1947 and 1951.
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