Jorge Amado

Jorge Amado de Faria (August 10th 1912 - August 6th 2001) is a writer Brésil IEN of the modernistic school .

Born with Itabuna in the State from Bahia, wire of João Amado de Faria and D. Eulália Leal, Jorge Amado arrives in 1931 at Rio de Janeiro to study the right there. Its work, translated into 40 languages, generally shows the hollows of the black communities and mulattos of the province of Bahia where it almost always lived, if it is not, at the beginning of the Années 1950, two or three years of political exile in Paris, Prague and Dobříš, seat of the Union of the Czechoslovakian writers which accommodates it in its exile.

He is prize winner of the Prix Stalin international for peace in 1951 and of the Prix Camões in 1994.

Works

O país C carnival , novel, 1931

Country of the carnival , transl. by Alice Raillard, Gallimard, coll “Of the whole world”, Paris, 1990, 172 p.

Cacau , novel, 1933

Cocoa , transl. by Jean Orecchioni, Nagel, coll “Large foreign novels”, Paris, 1955, 126 p.
Cocoa , new transl. by Jean Orecchioni, Stock, coll “cosmopolitan Library”, Paris, 1984, 121 p.

Suor , novel, 1934

Suor , transl. by Alice Raillard, Times Current, Paris, 1983, 160 p.

Jubiabá , novel, 1935

Bahia of All the Saints , transl. by Michel Berveiller and Pierre Hourcade, Gallimard, Paris, 1938, 269 p.

Mar Morto , novel, 1936

Mar Morto , transl. by Christmas-HAVe. Francois, Nagel, coll “the Large foreign novels”, Paris, 1949, 290 p.

Capitães da areia , novel, 1937

Captains of Sands , transl. by Vanina, Gallimard, coll “the Cross of the South”, Paris, 1952, 255 p.

has estrada C mar , poetry, 1938
ABC of Castro Alves , biography, 1941

the Slave ship: life of the poet Castro Alves , transl. of Isabel Meyrelles, Messidor, Paris, 1988, 321 p.

O cavaleiro da esperança , biography, 1942

the Knight of the hope: Life of Shine Carlos Prestes , transl. by Julia and Georges Soria, the brought together French Editors, Paris, 1949, 381 p.

Terras C sem fim , novel, 1943

Ground forces , transl. by Claude Plessis, Nagel, coll “the Large foreign novels”, Paris, 1946, 355 p.
the Grounds of the end of the world , transl. by Isabel Meyrelles, Messidor-Times current, Paris, 1985, 318 p.

São Jorge back Ilhéus , novel, 1944

Ground with the gold fruits, transl. by Violating C Canto, Nagel, coll “Large foreign novels”, Paris, 1951, 416 p.
Earth with the gold fruits, transl. by Isabel Meyrelles, Messidor, coll “literary Collection. Foreign letters”, Paris, 1986, 457 p.

Bahia de Todos bone Santos , guide, 1945
Seara vermelha , novel, 1946

Ways of the hunger , transl. by Violating C Canto, brought together French Editors, Paris, 1951, 383 p.

O amor C soldado , theater, 1947
O mundo da paz , viagens, 1951
Os subterrâneos da liberdade , novel in (part 1: Os Aspros tempos ; part 2: Agonia da noite ), 1954

Undergrounds of freedom , transl. by Isabel Meyrelles, Times current, Paris, 1984, 2 vol. (vol. 1: difficult Times , 536 p.; vol. 2: the Anguish of the night , 560 p.

Gabriela, Cravo E Canela wood , novel, 1958

Gabriella, girl of Brazil , transl. by Violating C Canto and Maurice Rock, Seghers-l' Inter, coll “the Large novels of Inter”, Paris, 1959, 249 p.
Gabriela, clove and grooves: chronicle of a city of the State de Bahia , transl. by Georges Boisvert, Stock, coll “the New cosmopolitan Cabinet”, Paris, 1983, 445 p.

died E died of Quincas Berro d' Água , novel, 1961

both died of Quinquin-the-Fleet , transl. by Georges Boisvert, Stock, Paris, 1971, 130 p.

Os velhos marinheiros: or O Capitão of longo curso , novel, 1961

the Old sailor: or All the truth on the famous adventures of the commander Vasco Moscoso de Aragon, captain with the long course , transl. by Alice Raillard, Stock, coll “the cosmopolitan Cabinet”, Paris, 1978, 349 p.

Os pastores da noite , novel, 1964

the Shepherds of the night , transl. by Conrad Detrez, Stock, Paris, 1970

Dona Flor E seus owe maridos , novel, 1966

Dona Flor and his/her two husbands: moral history, history of love , transl. by Georgette Tavares-Bastos, Stock, Paris, 1972, 537 p.

Tenda back milagres , novel, 1969

the Shop with the miracles , transl. of Brazilian by Alice Raillard, Stock, coll “the New cosmopolitan Cabinet”, Paris, 1984, 393 p.

Tereza Batista, cansada of will guerra , novel, 1972

Tereza Batista , transl. by Alice Raillard, Stock, coll “the cosmopolitan Cabinet”, Paris, 1974, XIX-353 p.

O gato Malhado E has andorinha Sinhá: uma historia of amor , historieta 1976

the Cat and the swallow: a history of love , transl. by Alice Raillard, illustrations of Carybé, Stock, Paris, 1983, 71 p.

Rural Tieta C, will pastora of pulled up: or Volta da filha pródiga , novel, 1977 has

Tieta d' Agreste, guardian of goats or the Return of the girl lavishes , transl. by Alice Raillard, Paris, Stock, coll “the New cosmopolitan Cabinet”, 1979, 660 p.

Farda, fardão: camisola to sleep , novel, 1979

the Battle of Small Trianon: fable to wake up a hope , transl. by Alice Raillard, Stock, coll “the New cosmopolitan Cabinet”, Paris, 1980, 322 recent p.

C milagre back pássaros , tale, 1979

Of the miracle of the ground birds occurred recently of Alagoas on banks of Rio São Francisco , transl. by Alice Raillard, illustrated by Floriano Teixeira, Messidor, Paris, 1990, 59 p.

O menino grapiúna , memories, 1982
has bola E O goleiro , literature for youth, 1984
Tocaia large: face has will obscura , novel, 1984

Tocaia large: the hidden side , transl. by Jean Orecchioni, Stock, coll “the New cosmopolitan Cabinet”, Paris, 1985, 513 p.

O sumiço da santa: uma história of feitiçaria , novel, 1988

Yansan of the storms: a history of sorcery , transl. of Portuguese by Jean Orecchioni, Stock, coll “the New cosmopolitan Cabinet”, Paris, 1989, 479 p.

Navegação of cabotagem: apontamentos para um livro of memórias that never escreverei , memories, 1992

Navigation of coastal traffic: notes for memories which I will never write , transl. by Alice Raillard, Gallimard, coll “Of the whole world”, Paris, 1996, 616 p.

have descoberta da America pelos Turcos: or Of como O Arab Jamil Bichara desbravador of florestas of visited has cidade of Itabuna para dar abasto ao corpo, Ali lhe ofereceram fortuna E casamento or ainda Os esponsais of Adma , mini-novel, 1994

the discovery of America by the Turks: or How the Arab Jamil Bichara, clearer of virgin lands, come downtown good from Itabuna to satisfy the needs for the body, lives himself there to offer fortune and marriage or engagement of Adma , transl. by Jean Orecchioni, Stock, coll “the New cosmopolitan Cabinet”, Paris, 1992, 115 p.

O milagre back pássaros , 1997

Directly in French:

Conversations with Alice Raillard , Gallimard, Paris, 1990, XII-326 p.

Quotation

the poor are so unhappy that, when it is the fashion to shit of the money, eh well they, they will be constipés.

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