José de Sousa Saramago (1922-2010)

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