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José Saramago


Portugal (1922 - 2010)

José de Sousa Saramago, was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor. Harold Bloom has described Saramago as "a permanent part of the Western canon".
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Series
Blindness
   1. Blindness (1997)
   2. Seeing (2006)
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Novels
   Manual of Painting and Calligraphy (1977)
   The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984)
   The Stone Raft (1986)
   Baltasar and Blimunda (1987)
   The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989)
   The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1993)
   All the Names (1997)
   The Tale of the Unknown Island (1999)
   The Cave (2002)
   The Double (2004)
   Death at Intervals (2008)
     aka Death With Interruptions
   The Elephant's Journey (2010)
   Cain (2011)
   Raised from the Ground (2012)
   Skylight (2014)
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Collections
   The Lives of Things (2012)
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Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
José Saramago recommends
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American Delirium (2021)
Betina González
"With [González's] capacity to inform, her sense of analysis, of proportion, of measure, of the balance of something so complex as a novel, I predict a bright future for her."
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The Painter of Birds (2001)
Lídia Jorge
"A remarkable book."

Awards
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (1996) : The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Nobel Prize in Literature Lifetime Achievement winner (1998)


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