The most famous and translated Brazilian writer in the world, an extraordinary interpreter of the Brazilian popular universe. His communist militancy, together with his writings characterized by an active social and political commitment, earned him prison and exile several times. The novel Jubiabá (1935) marked a fundamental stage in the history of the Brazilian novel for its lyrical realism. Dedicated to Bahia and its people and characterized by an ironic and picaresque style are the novels Doña Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966), Tent of Miracles (1969), Tieta (1977). In 1972 he wrote what can be considered his masterpiece, a manifesto ante litteram (ahead of his time) of women’s liberation: Tereza Batista: Home from the wars (1988).