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Jorge Amado

Died in 2001

Jorge Amado was born on 10 August 1912 near Itabuna, in southern Bahia, and studied law in Rio, where he graduated in 1935 according to Toda Matéria. A member of the Brazilian Communist Party, he was arrested several times and lived in exile in Argentina and Uruguay, then in France and Czechoslovakia. Elected a federal deputy in 1945, he sat in the Constituent Assembly. In 1961 he entered the Brazilian Academy of Letters, in chair 23, which he held until his death. He died in Salvador on 6 August 2001.

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