Which Brazilian author wrote the novel 'Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands'?

Jorge Amado wrote the novel “Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands.” The Portuguese original, “Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos,” was published in 1966 and is set largely in Salvador, Bahia.

The story follows Dona Flor after the death of her first husband, Vadinho, a charming but irresponsible gambler and womanizer. She later marries Teodoro, a respectable pharmacist whose steady personality contrasts sharply with Vadinho’s sensual, chaotic life. The central comic and fantastical complication is that Vadinho returns as a ghost, leaving Dona Flor torn between passion and domestic stability.

Amado drew on Bahian daily life, Afro-Brazilian religious traditions, food, music, folklore, and Carnival. The novel’s title is sometimes confused with its film adaptations, especially the famous 1976 Brazilian movie starring Sônia Braga; the book came first. Amado was one of Brazil’s most prominent twentieth-century novelists and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.