Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago is a master of the parable, drawing on Portugal's history and heritage, to tell stories of cruelty love and humanity.
Saramago won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998, just after the novel Blindness was published. This work is part of a trilogy that marks a shift in his writing, from historical fantasies to allegorical explorations.
Saramago was born the child of landless peasants in a small village North-east of Lisbon. He's worked as a farmer, a mechanic, a publisher, a translator and a journalist who started to take himself seriously as an author at age sixty. He's an atheist, communist, and public intellectual who delivers strong views of what he calls our barbaric, beautiful world, both from the podium and in the quiet prose of the page.
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