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Profile: Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, who has died at the age of 88
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NPR All Things Considered
08-07-2001
Profile: Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, who has died at the age of 88
Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
MELISSA BLOCK, host:
Brazil is mourning the death of Jorge Amado, the country's most famous 20th-century writer. Amado, who was almost 89 years old, died last night of heart disease. He wrote 23 novels which have been translated from his native Portuguese into 48 languages. NPR's Martin Kaste ...
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Jorge Amado: Boundless love and death in Bahia
Americas
; ... and his subsequent release last July. Plans were under way for Amado's eighty-ninth birthday celebration on August 10 when the news came: E mono lo scrittore Jorge Amado-Jorge Amado esta motto-Brazilian Author Jorge Amado Dead at 88. On August 6, 2001, the ...
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Brazilians Mourn Author Jorge Amado; Novelist Captured the Lively Rhythm of Bahia
The Washington Post
; Brazilians from all walks of life and writers from around the world bid farewell today to the nation's best-known novelist, Jorge Amado, whose sensuous, tropical storytelling made his native Bahia famous. Amado, a perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize, died of a heart attack in a hospital here
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The life of a Latin American literary giant parallels the story of a tumultuous century.
The Washington Post
; On August 6, Jorge Amado de Faria died in the capital of his native Bahia, just four days shy of his 89th birthday. One of the giants of literature, he was published in close to 50 languages, besides the Brazilian Portuguese in which he wrote. His literary output spanned six prolific decades,
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Profile: Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, who has died at the age of 88
All Things Considered (NPR)
; ... including latter-day political colonels of the same type that Amado attacked in his first books seven decades ago. Martin Kaste, NPR News, Rio de Janeiro. (Soundbite of music) LINDA WERTHEIMER (Host): Fewer PDAs for personal digital assistants. That's coming up on ...
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Jorge Amado writes from heart, home. (Brazil's most successful writer)
Variety
; ... scene, Vadinho runs nude from a church. Though Wilker's private parts were discreetly covered, the bishop's grapevine conveyed news of a naked man traipsing about the sanctuary. The holy father denied Barreto access to finish the scene the next day. Amado rushed ...
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Jorge Amado's Wild, Wild Brazilian West
The Washington Post
; SHOWDOWN By Jorge Amado Translated from the Portuguese By Gregory Rabassa Bantam. 422 pp. $18.95 IN BRAZIL, whose territory nearly matches that of the continental U.S., the frontier has a familiar mystique. And there as here, myths of frontier independence have often conflicted with reality.
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Discovering Isaac Babel. (Essential Books).(Brief Article)
World Literature Today
; TWO [BRAZILIAN] AUTHORS have captured the hearts and minds of the youth of my generation: Erico Verissimo (1905-75) and Jorge Amado (1912-2000), who only recently passed away. As an avid reader, I have always been enchanted by the works of these writers for their superb narrative skills.
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Showdown.
The Nation
; SHOWDON. By Jorge Amado. Bantam. 422 pp. $18.95 It's a mistake to see Jorge Amado as either a great literary artist or a soft-core pornographer, although North American reviewers have characterized him as both. The grand old man of Brazilian letters is, rather, a twentieth-century Charles Dicker:
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Blame It on Bahia
The Washington Post
; THE WAR OF THE SAINTS By Jorge Amado Translated from the Portuguese By Gregory Rabassa Bantam. 357 pp. $22.95 READING a new Jorge Amado novel is like eating yet another Brazilian dinner. The ingredients are predictably pleasant: the beans, the rice, the palm oil, seafood, a zesty dash of lime. The
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Obituary: Jorge Amado
The Independent - London
; "SAVE YOUR coffin for the next round/ you won't catch me in a hole in the ground." So says Quincas, one of the Brazilian writer Jorge Amado's irrepressible heroes; and it is hard to imagine that Quincas's creator left this life any more willingly. By the time he died, Amado had over 20 volumes of
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