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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.
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.
All the Names (Portuguese: Todos os nomes) is a novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago, the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel was written in 1997, and Margaret Jull Costa's 1999 English translation of it won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.
' 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]
She lived with José Saramago until his death, in 2010, also translating many of Saramago's works to Spanish. In 2010, after her husband's death, del Río acquired Portuguese citizenship. [5] Pilar del Río is president of the José Saramago Foundation. On May 26, 2017 she was awarded the Luso-Spanish Arts and Culture Prize at the National ...