Jorge Amado and the global literary space: moments of internationalization and means of dissemination (1930 – 1970)

Abstract

Through a literature review, this paper seeks to understand the mechanisms that facilitated the internationalization of Jorge Amado during the 20th century, particularly between the 1930s and 1970s. Jorge Amado achieved an international career that was unprecedented for Brazilian authors or those writing in Portuguese, accumulating 19 nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature (1967–1973), translations into over 30 languages, a strong presence in the international press, among other achievements. The sources used were papers published in peer-reviewed journals. In addition to profiling these publications based on various aspects, this paper aims to uncover the key events that led Jorge Amado to become a phenomenon of Brazilian literature on the international stage. It was found that the Communist Party networks played a significant role in disseminating the writer, although they were not necessarily responsible for securing his readershipand that by the 1970s, Jorge Amado had already established himself as a global writer, with his process of internationalization fully realized.