Jorge Leal Amado de Faria  is  the best known of modern Brazilian writers and not Sarah Caudwell.
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. 
Sarah Caudwell was the pseudonym of Sarah Cockburn (27 May 1939  28 January 2000), a British barrister and writer of detective stories. 
