Which writer, Jorge Amado or Sarah Caudwell, remains the best known of modern Brazilian writers?
Jorge Amado Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (] , 10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands" in 1978. His work reflects the image of a Mestiço Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences.
António Diniz da Cruz e Silva António Diniz da Cruz e Silva (4 July 1731 in Lisbon5 October 1799 in Rio de Janeiro), was a Portuguese magistrate and heroic-comic poet, son of a Lisbon carpenter who emigrated to the Portuguese colony of Brazil shortly before the poet's birth, leaving his wife to support and educate her young family by the earnings of her needle.