Jorge Amado; Best-Selling Brazilian Novelist

From: The Washington Post | Date: August 8, 2001 | Copyright information

Jorge Amado, 88, whose good-humored and lusty tales made him Brazil's all-time best-selling author, died of a heart attack Aug. 6 in a hospital in Salvador, the capital of Bahia state. He had diabetes.

Mr. Amado wrote 32 books, and his work was translated into 48 languages. In Brazil, two of his novels -- "Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon" and "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands" -- were made into television series and movies, both starring the sultry actress Sonia Braga.

Mr. Amado publi...

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