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José de Sousa Saramago GColSE GColCa (Portuguese: [ʒuˈzɛ ðɨ ˈsozɐ sɐɾɐˈmaɣu]; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an ...
Blindness (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a 1995 novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago. It is one of Saramago's most famous novels, along with The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Baltasar and Blimunda.
The Elephant's Journey (Portuguese: A Viagem do Elefante) is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago. It was first published in 2008 with an English translation in 2010.
Jun 14, 2024 · José Saramago was a Portuguese novelist and man of letters who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. The son of rural labourers, Saramago grew up in great poverty in Lisbon. After holding a series of jobs as mechanic and metalworker, Saramago began working in a Lisbon publishing firm.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1998 was awarded to José Saramago "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality"
Jun 18, 2010 · José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality."
Author of more than 40 titles, José Saramago was born in 1922, in the village of Azinhaga. The nights spent in the public library of the Palácio Galveias, in Lisbon, were fundamental for its formation.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1998 was awarded to José Saramago "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality"
Jun 18, 2010 · Saramago was an atheist and politically involved in the Communist Party in Portugal, which is reflected in his literary output. His writings were controversial in his native country, and consequently Saramago came to settle on Lanzarote later in life.
Poet, essayist, novelist and playwright José Saramago, who died in 2010 aged 87, was born to landless, illiterate peasants in rural Portugal. It was not until he was 60 that he won international acclaim for his fourth novel, Memorial do Convento , but he went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1998), and is now, as Harold Bloom has ...
