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.
Diná Silveira de Queirós Dinah Silveira Ribeiro, better known as Diná Silveira de Queirós (November 9, 1911 in São Paulo – November 27, 1982 in Rio de Janeiro), was a Brazilian writer of novels, short stories, and chronicles. She published her main works between 1939 and 1955. Silveira de Queirós was a Machado de Assis Prize laureate and the "second woman to be elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters". Her novel, "A Muralha" was the basis for the Brazilian telenovela, "A Muralha".