José Saramago

Saramago in January 2008 José de Sousa Saramago (; 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." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant."

More than two million copies of Saramago's books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been translated into 25 languages. A proponent of libertarian communism, Saramago criticized institutions such as the Catholic Church, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. An atheist, he defended love as an instrument to improve the human condition. In 1992, the Government of Portugal under Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva ordered the removal of one of his works, ''The Gospel According to Jesus Christ'', from the Aristeion Prize's shortlist, claiming the work was religiously offensive. Disheartened by this political censorship of his work, Saramago went into exile on the Spanish island of Lanzarote, where he lived alongside his Spanish wife Pilar del Río until his death in 2010.

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    El evangelio según Jesucristo by Saramago, José

    Published 1998
    Book
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    Poesía completa. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2013
    Book
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    Las maletas del viajero. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2010
    Book
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    Ensayo sobre la lucidez. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2010
    Book
  5. 5

    El evangelio según Jesucristo. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2010
    Book
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    La balsa de piedra. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2010
    Book
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    Las intermitencias de la muerte. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2010
    Book
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    El viaje del elefante. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2010
    Book
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    Todos los nombres. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2010
    Book
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    El hombre duplicado. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2010
    Book
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    Las pequeñas memorias. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2010
    Book
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    Caín. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2010
    Book
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    La caverna. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2010
    Book
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    Casi un objeto. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2010
    Book
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    Historia del cerco de Lisboa. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2010
    Book
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    Viaje a Portugal. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2010
    Book
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    Manual de pintura y caligrafía. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2010
    Book
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    Levantado del suelo. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2010
    Book
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    Memorial del convento. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2010
    Book
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    El año de la muerte de Ricardo Reis. / by Saramago, José

    Published 2010
    Book