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José de Sousa Saramago GColSE GColCa (European 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 elusory reality."
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (original title: O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo, 1991) is a novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago.It is a fictional re-telling of Jesus Christ's life, depicting him as a flawed, humanised character with passions and doubts.
Baltasar and Blimunda (Portuguese: Memorial do Convento, 1982) is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago.. It is an 18th-century love story intertwined with the construction of the Convent of Mafra, now one of Portugal's chief tourist attractions, as a background.
The History of the Siege of Lisbon (Portuguese: História do Cerco de Lisboa) is a novel by Portuguese author José Saramago, first published in 1989. It tells the story of a proofreader , and the story of the Siege of Lisbon , the subject of the book he is charged with correcting.
Land of Sin [1] [2] or Country of Sin [3] [4] (Portuguese: Terra do Pecado), published in 1947, is the first novel by author José Saramago, who in 1998 became the first author writing in Portuguese to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. [5]
First edition (publ. Caminho) Memories of my Youth (Small Memories) is an autobiography by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago.It was first published in 2006. A memoir of Saramago's childhood in Portugal that moves between Lisbon and Azinhaga, the village where he was born in 1922 and first moved away from when he was 18 months old.
Saramago lost his job as deputy director of the newspaper Diário de Nóticias in 1975, for what he believes were political reasons. Convinced that he would be unable to find further employment, he rededicated himself to writing literature after a hiatus of nineteen years. [ 3 ]
' The intermittencies of Death '), is a novel written by Nobel Laureate José Saramago. Death with Interruptions was published in 2005 in its original Portuguese, and the novel was translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa in 2008. [1] The novel focuses on death, as both a phenomenon and as an anthropomorphized character. [1]