

Jorge é o autor mais adaptado do cinema, do teatro e da televisão. Integrou os quadros da intelectualidade comunista brasileira desde o final da primeira metade do século XX - ideologia presente em várias obras, como a retratação dos moradores do trapiche baiano em Capitães da Areia, de 1937. Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (Itabuna, 10 de agosto de 1912 - Salvador, 6 de agosto de 2001) foi um dos mais famosos e traduzidos escritores brasileiros de todos os tempos. His work dealt largely with the poor urban black and mulatto communities of Bahia. 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. also one of the most entertaining.Jorge Amado de Faria was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school. No other Latin American writer is more genuinely admired by his peers, nor has any other exerted so great a creative influence on the course of Latin American fiction." The New York Times Book Review "A sentimental masterpiece." Los Angeles Times "Poetic, comical and very human." Chicago Tribune "One of the greatest writers.

full of unexpected delights-everything a modern novel should be." The Denver Post "A charismatic storyteller. also one of the most entertaining." -Mario Vargas Llosa, "Bawdy, brilliant, human and humorous. No other Latin American writer is more genuinely admired by his peers, nor has any other exerted so great a creative influence on the course of Latin American fiction."-"The New York Times Book Review" "A sentimental masterpiece."-"Los Angeles Times" "Poetic, comical and very human."-"Chicago Tribune" "One of the greatest writers. full of unexpected delights-everything a modern novel should be."-"The Denver Post" "A charismatic storyteller. also one of the most entertaining." Mario Vargas Llosa, "Bawdy, brilliant, human and humorous. No other Latin American writer is more genuinely admired by his peers, nor has any other exerted so great a creative influence on the course of Latin American fiction."The New York Times Book Review "A sentimental masterpiece."Los Angeles × "Poetic, comical and very human."Chicago Tribune "One of the greatest writers.

full of unexpected delights-everything a modern novel should be."The Denver Post "A charismatic storyteller.
