Jorge Amado

Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001), known as Jorge Amado, was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school.

Quotes

• O cheiro de cravo,
  a cor de canela,
  eu vim de longe
  vim ver Gabriela.
  • Colour of cinnamon,
    Clove's sweet smell,
    I've come a long way
    To see Gabrielle.
  • Gabriela, Cravo e Canela (1958) epigraph (moda da zona do cacau · "song of the cacao region"). Translated by James L. Taylor and William L. Grossman, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Jorge Amado on Wikipedia