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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 ...
Apr 23, 2024 · José Saramago (born November 16, 1922, Azinhaga, Portugal—died June 18, 2010, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain) 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.
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Jan 7, 2022 · If you can look, observe” (Blindness) Due to his “parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality”, Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
The 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Portuguese author José Saramago (1922–2010) "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." [1] He is the only recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature from Portugal.
By RICHARD BOUDREAUX. Oct. 9, 1998 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. ROME — Portuguese fabulist Jose Saramago, whose entrancing tales and playful skepticism about history and reality make him one of...
Aug 26, 2007 · The Portuguese novelist and Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago is a stubborn atheist, an unreconstructed Communist, an ornery political polemicist — and the creator of some of the world’s...
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