Brazil's most famous novelist, Jorge Amado, who warmed readers in cold climates the world over with tales of sultry tropical life in works like Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, has died. Amado, a diabetic whose health had been delicate for many years, died in a hospital in his home city of Salvador, northeastern Brazil. A perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize, Amado was Brazil's biggest-selling author both at home and abroad, with 20 million volumes sold worldwide in nearly 50 languages. His most renowned novels were Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958) and Dona Flor (1966). Both were made into movies starring Sonia Braga, the incarnation of Amado's beauties from his native northeastern state of Bahia.
Passage, Jorge Amado, 88
Brazil's most famous novelist, Jorge Amado, who warmed readers in cold climates the world over with tales of sultry tropical life in works like Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, has died. Amado, a diabetic whose health had been delicate for many years, died in a hospital in his home city of Salvador, northeastern Brazil. A perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize, Amado was Brazil's biggest-selling author both at home and abroad, with 20 million volumes sold worldwide in nearly 50 languages. His most renowned novels were Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958) and Dona Flor (1966). Both were made into movies starring Sonia Braga, the incarnation of Amado's beauties from his native northeastern state of Bahia.
