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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 elusory reality." [1] .
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José Saramago (born November 16, 1922, Azinhaga, Portugal—died June 18, 2010, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain) 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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Biography. José Saramago, 70s ©FJS Archive/Reserved Rights. Autobiography. I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village located in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the river Almonda, some hundred kilometers northeast of Lisbon. My parents were called José de Sousa and Maria da Piedade.
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Aug 26, 2007 · Aug. 26, 2007. One evening in June, the Portuguese novelist José Saramago was addressing a small gathering at a book party in Lisbon. The occasion was the reissue of a volume of his poems...
Jun 19, 2010 · José Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 with novels that combine surrealist experimentation with a kind of sardonic peasant pragmatism, died on Friday...
José Saramago, (born Nov. 16, 1922, Azinhaga, Port.—died June 18, 2010, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain), Portuguese novelist. From a poor family, Saramago studied part-time while working in a welder’s shop. Later he began working as a journalist and translator. He published his first novel, Country of Sin, in 1947.
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