 José Saramago was born in 1922 in Azinhaga, a small town in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River.
He is a Portuguese novelist and short-story writer. Saramago has also published poetry, essays, plays, librettos, diaries, travelogues and a journal. The protagonist of his novelist is frequently depicted resisting some type of oppressive and dehumanizing social institution. Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
Selected works:
- Os poemas possíveis, 1966
- Provàvelmente alegria, 1970
- Deste mundo e do outro, 1971
- A bagagem do viajante, 1973
- As opiniões que o dl teve, 1974
- ano de 1993, 1975
- Manual de pintura e caligrafia, 1977 (manual painting and calligraphy)
- Objecto quase, 1978 - (quasi objects)
- Poética dos cinco sentidos. O ouvido, 1979
- A noite, 1979
- Levantado do chão [raised from the floor], 1980
- Que farei com este livro, 1980
- Viagem a portugal, 1981 (journey to portugal), 2001
- Memorial do convento, 1982 (baltasar and blimunda)
- ano da morte de ricardo reis, 1984 (the year of the death of ricardo reis)
- A jangada de pedra, 1986 (the stone raft)
- Historia do cerco de lisboa, 1989 (the history of the siege of lisbon)
- evangelho segundo jesus cristo, 1991 (the gospel according to jesus christ)
- In nomine dei, 1993
- Ensaio sobrea a cegueira, 1995 (blindness: a novel)
- Todos os nomes, 1997 (all the names)
- El amor posible, 1998
- Cuadernos de lanzarote, 1998
- El cuento de la isla desconocida, 1999 (the tale of the unknown island)
- La caverna, 2001
- El hombre duplicado, 2002
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