Jorge Amado

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. 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.

10 August 1912

Born on the same birth day (10 August): Andres Põime • Angus Lewis Macdonald • Carlos Menditeguy • Charles Darrow • David Sommeil • Dianne Fromholtz • Jean-François Lyotard • Patti Austin • Reinout Scholte • V. V. Giri • Ward Moore

Born in the same month (August 1912): Aleksandr Aleksandrov (mathematician) • Barry Sullivan (American actor) • Ben Hogan • David Raksin • Edward Mills Purcell • Erich Honecker • Herb Narvo • Håkon Stenstadvold • John H. Michaelis • Julia Child • Otto Ernst Remer • Raoul Wallenberg • Raphael Blau • Richard C. Miller • Salvador Luria • Samuel Fuller • Vladimir Žerjavić • Wendy Hiller • Wolfgang Suschitzky