Jose Saramago (Portugal)

Biography:
José Saramago, recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Azinhaga on 18 November 1922.
For financial reasons he abandoned his high-school studies and worked as a mechanic. After trying different jobs in the civil service, he worked for a publishing company for twelve years and then for newspapers, at one time as assistant editor of "Diário de Notícias".Between 1975/ 80 Saramago supported himself as a translator but since his literary successes in the 1980s he has devoted himself to his own writing. His international breakthrough came in 1982 with Baltasar and Blimunda. Since 1992 he has been living on Lanzarote.

Works:
1947 - Terra do pecado
1966 - Os poemas possíveis
1970 - Provavelmente alegria
1971 - Deste mundo e do outro
1973 - A bagagem do viajante
1974 - As opiniões que o D.L. teve
1975 - O ano de 1993
1976 - Os apontamentos
1977 - Manual de pintura e caligrafia (Manual of Painting and Calligraphy: A Novel)
1978 - Objecto quase
1979 - A noite
1980 - Levantado do chão
1980 - Que farei com este livro
1981 - Viagem a Portugal (Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture)
1982 - Memorial do convento (Baltasar and Blimunda)
1984 - O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis (The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis)
1986 - A jangada de pedra (The Stone Raft)
1987 - A segunda vida de Francisco de Assis
1989 - História do cerco de Lisboa (The History of the Siege of Lisbon)
1992 - O Evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo (The Gospel According to Jesus Christ)
1993 - In nomine Dei
1994 - Cadernos de Lanzarote I
1995 - Ensaio sobre a cegueira (Blindness)
1995 - Cadernos de Lanzarote II
1996 - Cadernos de Lanzarote III
1997 - Todos os nomes (All the Names)
1997 - Cadernos de Lanzarote IV
1998 - Cadernos de Lanzarote V
1999 - O conto da ilha desconhecida (The Tale of the Unknown Island)
1999 - Discursos de Estocolmo
1999 - Folhas políticas (1976-1998)
2000 - A caverna (The Cave)
2000 - A face de Saramago
2001 - A maior flor do mundo
2002 - O homem duplicado (The Double)
2004 - Ensaio sobre a lucidez (Seeing)
2005 - Don Giovanni ou o dissoluto absolvido
2005 - As intermitências da morte

Awards:

1980 - Prémio Cidade de Lisboa
1983 and 1984 - Prémio PEN Club Português
1986 - Prémio da Crítica da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores
1991 - Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela
1993 - Prémio Vida Literária
1995 - Prémio Camões
1998 - Nobel Prize for Literature

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