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): Alexander Glazunov • Alexandrine Le Normant d'Étiolles • Andre Drummond • Anne, Duchess of Exeter • Anwar Ibrahim • Danny Griffin (footballer) • JoAnna Garcia Swisher • Jon Farriss • Kate O'Mara • Reinout Scholte • Rhonda Fleming • Rocky Colavito • Shafqat Rana • Suzanne Collins • İlhan Mansız

Born in the same month (August 1912): Abbé Pierre • Aleksandr Aleksandrov (mathematician) • Barry Sullivan (American actor) • Ben Hogan • Claire Cribbs • David Brand • David Raksin • Erich Honecker • Gego • Håkon Stenstadvold • Nancy Wake • Otto Ernst Remer • Palle Huld • Raoul Wallenberg • Raphael Blau • Ted Drake • Toe Blake • Wendy Hiller • Wolfgang Suschitzky