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José Saramago

1922 - 2010

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José de Sousa Saramago (European Portuguese: [ʒuˈzɛ ðɨ ˈso(w)zɐ 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." 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. José Saramago is the 112th most popular writer (down from 89th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Portuguese Writer.

José Saramago is a Portuguese novelist, playwright, and poet. He is most famous for his novels The Stone Raft, Blindness, and The Double.

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Among writers, José Saramago ranks 112 out of 7,302. Before him are Jack London, Knut Hamsun, W. Somerset Maugham, Stephen King, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Marquis de Sade. After him are Václav Havel, Anatole France, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, André Gide, Theodor Herzl, and Hafez.

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Among people born in 1922, José Saramago ranks 2. Before him is Kurt Vonnegut. After him are Yitzhak Rabin, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Christopher Lee, Judy Garland, Stan Lee, Hiroo Onoda, Norodom Sihanouk, Franjo Tuđman, Thomas Kuhn, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Among people deceased in 2010, José Saramago ranks 1. After him are John Fenn, Leslie Nielsen, Juan Antonio Samaranch, J. D. Salinger, Lech Kaczyński, Tony Curtis, Ronnie James Dio, James Black, Gloria Stuart, Louise Bourgeois, and Eddie Fisher.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, José Saramago ranks 7 out of 633. Before him are Ferdinand Magellan (1480), Vasco da Gama (1460), Bartolomeu Dias (1450), Prince Henry the Navigator (1394), Anthony of Padua (1195), and António de Oliveira Salazar (1889). After him are Pedro Álvares Cabral (1467), António Guterres (1949), Fernando Pessoa (1888), Luís de Camões (1524), Cristiano Ronaldo (1985), and Manuel I of Portugal (1469).

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Among writers born in Portugal, José Saramago ranks 1. After him are Fernando Pessoa (1888), Luís de Camões (1524), Denis of Portugal (1261), Judah Leon Abravanel (1460), Luís Fróis (1532), José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1845), Gil Vicente (1465), João de Barros (1496), Almeida Garrett (1799), Francisco de Sá de Miranda (1491), and Tomé Pires (1468).

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