His father had migrated from Sergipe to become a cocoa farmer in Bahia. Besides Jorge, the first son, the couple also had Jofre, who died at the age of three, Joelson and James. He grew up amidst political struggles, land disputes and fights involving henchmen and gunslingers. His own father was shot in an ambush. In the company of the caboclo Argemiro, who would put him in his saddle and take him to Pirangi on fair days, the boy had his first contact with the poker table and brothel.
Jorge is at the centre of the second row from the bottom. The years of learning and discovery of a passion for letters Jorge Amado came into contact with letters through his mother, who taught him to read from newspapers. His Portuguese teacher was Fr. In , after a spell at another boarding school, the Ipiranga Gymnasium, Jorge Amado moved into one of the large manors in the Pelourinho, in Salvador. The building served as inspiration for his third novel, Sweat , published in The members of the Academy of Rebels in Jorge Amado is third from the left.
The story was published in the newspaper O Jornal and the author used a pseudonym, Y. In , at the age of eighteen, he published his first novel, The Country of Carnival , through the publishing house of the editor Augusto Frederico Schmidt. This novel is considered his true literary debut. That same year he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he enrolled at the Faculty of Law.
Though he graduated as a lawyer, he never practiced the profession. In , he chose not to publish the novel Rui Barbosa n. With Cacau , Jorge Amado began a cycle of novels portraying life on the cocoa coast. To receive information and news on Jorge Amado. Your e-mail was registered successfully. Jorge Amado at the age of one. See video 1m Jorge Amado came into contact with letters through his mother, who taught him to read from newspapers.
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