Summary of Amadou F


Jorge Amado (port Jorge Amado, August 10, 1912, Itabuna, Bahia – August 6, 2001, Salvador, Bahia) is a famous Brazilian writer, public and political figure.
Born in 1912 on the hacienda of Aurisidia in the state of Bahia. A year later, because of the smallpox epidemic, his family was forced to move to the city of Ilheus, where Amadu spent all his childhood, and the impressions of this period of life influenced his future work. He studied at the University of Rio de Janeiro at the Faculty of Law, where he first encountered the communist movement. An activist of the Communist Party of Brazil. He was persecuted for political activities. He was elected a deputy of the National Congress from the Communist Party of Brazil (1946). In 1948-1952 he lived in France and Czechoslovakia. Repeatedly visited the USSR. Member of the World Peace Council. He was awarded the International Stalin Prize “For Strengthening Peace Among Nations” (1951) and many other international and Brazilian prizes. Member of the Brazilian Academy of Literature. Honorary doctor of various universities in Brazil, Portugal, Italy, Israel and France, the owner of many other titles in virtually every country in South America, including the title of Both de Chango religion Candelble. Three children: Leela (1933, died in 1949), Joan Georges (1947) and Paloma (1951). He died on August 6, 2001 from a heart attack.


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Summary of Amadou F